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A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by eleveriven »

yoavm wrote: post #90
bko wrote: post #83

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I often see "recycled" or similar as a signal for more expensive. My favorite was when I saw a jam that touted "upcycled" strawberries. When I looked into it, it basically meant that it was made from beat up ugly strawberries that would have been used for animal feed. Surely there would be cost savings in using reject fruit, right? No, an 8oz jar retails for over $8 compared to about half that to an organic no sugar…

Sometimes it's a marketing stunt, but often recycling is more expensive. I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one. The unfortunate reality of our financial system is that it often rewards people for doing the wrong thing.

It prioritizes short-term cost efficiency over long-term sustainability

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Post by dotBen »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #205
dotBen wrote: post #63

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Stands like this have to be paired with an external keyboard. Raising the monitor so that the top is as close to eye level as possible (while maintaining a straight back) is better orthopedicly. It's impossible to achieve this and a good keyboard posture, so you must introduce an external keyboard. Without an external keyboard, there is no value in using a stand, you might as well just keep the laptop in a neutral po…

Shouldn’t the monitor be centered at eye level? Or is it worse to look a little bit up than down?

I have had office desks professional adjusted by an occupational safety orthopedic person and that has always been the advice I was told.

Another piece of advice was that on a standing desk your forearms should not be parallel to the ground but slightly below your elbow.

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Post by Ekaros »

calmbonsai wrote: post #78

I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago. On the positive side, kudos to whomever in marketing/pr at the design firm got this useless product so much press. This is just the sort of "win" that a design consulting shop loves to have for actual briefs that lead to real moving-the-needle revenue. One example would be SmartDesign's modular slip-on "S-Grips" that…

Only way to get cardboard to work in furniture and such is to laminate all sides... And even then it is only acceptable. Albeit very light.

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Post by Ekaros »

userbinator wrote: post #196
yoavm wrote: post #90

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Sometimes it's a marketing stunt, but often recycling is more expensive. I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one. The unfortunate reality of our financial system is that it often rewards people for doing the wrong thing.

I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one. Collect enough, and you can melt them into solid blocks that could be used like this laptop stand. Recycling common plastic of the same type (PE, PP) is actually easily done with commonly available equipment, unlike paper.

Likely depends on system. In multi-stream system I think paper is likely economically net positive in recycling. It scales well enough to large plants to reasonably complete with pristine material. Also many use case like cardboard for shipping is suitable use cases.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Refusing23 wrote: post #214

doesnt look comfy to type on the laptop with that edge at the bottom. My wrists wouldn't like it. also 22 bucks for a few grams of cardboard? seems excessive. but hey at least it'll break fast, cant handle moisture, and so on.

You would normally use a laptop stand with an external keyboard and mouse, the idea is to raise the height of the monitor to save your neck.

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Post by tiborsaas »

calmbonsai wrote: post #78

I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago. On the positive side, kudos to whomever in marketing/pr at the design firm got this useless product so much press. This is just the sort of "win" that a design consulting shop loves to have for actual briefs that lead to real moving-the-needle revenue. One example would be SmartDesign's modular slip-on "S-Grips" that…

I had a log seat style cardboard furniture for years, it was great when I needed something light but capable to hold stuff.
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