This is art. Love it.
This is failed design, your wrists will hate you after using this.
A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
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Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
What's the carbon cost of shipping a plastic stand? Fwiw I do think that non-consumtion is a more 'real' protest than buying recycled but if you _have_ to get something
> but if you _have_ to get something
You don’t have to get it shipped, most of the time. Whenever you next go to town, go into any hardware shop and buy whatever they have.
Heck, hop on freecycle and you’re bound to see someone giving away one of these that you can pick up for free, in person.
Or buy one second hand.
Or use a large book.
Or, or, or…
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#53Am vaguely reminded of a fancy apple-style aluminum stand I saw in an ad recently. That one is probably a lot more expensive.
This $6 “fancy” cardboard box from Ikea has been doing the same job for me quite well. Can also discretely hide a power strip and hub inside, keeps dust off too. Just cut a small hole in the back.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tjena-storage-box-with-lid-blac...
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
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Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#55I remember the times when my monitor stand was "made" out of yet-to-be-recycled paper books - a few thick java references. Later, when I bought a new monitor I donated them to a library. I hope they got recycled, or at least, garbage-collected. Although I can't imagine anyone finding old java books in the garbage and find them useful for anything.
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#56It blows my mind that stands like this one as well as keyboards are designed with an incline requiring constant tension in the wrists. The natural position of the fingers when typing is below the wrist not above it.
Yeah it's weird, I have a static wooden one similar to this. Looked good but the incline was so sharp that it was just awkward to use.
Not sure what the thought process is behind the design of most of these things.
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the carbon cost of shipping a plastic stand? Fwiw I do think that non-consumtion is a more 'real' protest than buying recycled but if you _have_ to get something
> but if you _have_ to get something You don’t have to get it shipped, most of the time. Whenever you next go to town, go into any hardware shop and buy whatever they have. Heck, hop on freecycle and you’re bound to see someone giving away one of these that you can pick up for free, in person. Or buy one second hand. Or use a large book. Or, or, or…
Hey yeah I agree, I just thought OP was being over the top with the moralizing. Like, OK its a bit virtue signal-y but so is complaining about it. And its still better than plastic.
I'm not sure that being shipped is much worse than buying from a store that also gets it shipped and wrapped in as much plastic. And if its a town over, you're driving there which is CO2 as well.
Using nothing at all is better for sure and I said as much. Second hand stuff rules.
All in all though, this sort of individual choice is peanuts compared to taking a single plane ride which is itself peanuts compared to what corporations get away with. So imo. having any sort of strong opinion on this is silly.
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#58It's hard to justify $30+ for a sheet of paper, especially considering the fact that condensation from a nearby water bottle will kill this product.
Amplified by my heavily sweating body in full coding focus mode...
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#59A couple of points.
It is not aesthetically pleasing at all, which is important to me, for whatever neurological reason. Also, I consider a laptop stand as just a device to raise the screen to a better ergonomic level on the understanding that an external keyboard and mouse will be used to operate the device.
Otherwise, in a laptop stand, ergonomic keyboard use requirements pull the incline towards level, and ergonomic monitor height requirements pull the incline upwards, so there is no healthy angle for a laptop stand.
As already mentioned by andrei_says_, typing fingers should be below the wrist (as correct piano playing has proved for centuries).
Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
#60The article is seemingly outdated. The cheapest one I could find in the store was 29 USD. In Euros, it’s 36.37. And of course, you still have to pay for shipping. From Korea. This seems quite absurd. Whatever good you do the planet by using something out of recycled paper (thumbs up on the idea) will surely be offset by all the logistics of the shipping. This should have been a tutorial, not a product.
All the embellishments on it seem like they probably involved operating imprinting machines or printing ink onto the paper, too.