One of the core fundamentals I want from a sit/stand desk is that it adjusts low enough. Most people have their keyboard too high up in relation to their elbows - the standard 30" desk we all know was created for writing, not using a keyboard. I currently have my desk set to 26.6in. I care about ergonomics and health, so this is essential. I don't want a desk that displays health information - I want better health!
Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity
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#72Prominently absent: any hint as to how much this will cost. Are there actually people who manage to keep their desk empty enough for these screens to be visible? Mine's got an ever-shifting pile of reference books, notebooks and keepsakes right where those are sitting. If I clean it off this stuff will accumulate again rapidly.
Anyway, thanks for the accidental reminder to spend a little time cleaning the pile of mail off my desk, and refreshing the tape that keeps some cables stuck to its underside. Now I can see most of the Mardi Gras doubloons that are scattered across its surface to provide a happy, healthy environment for the toy dragons under the monitor.
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#73Looks very slick. I'm not sure I understand why I'd want stock prices and social feeds on my desk though, but I guess that's configurable. I imagine this is a personal preference thing, but I've never really understood the appeal of having task lists and such in my face all the time, whether it be on a watch or a widget on my phone home screen or wherever. If I'm managing tasks, I'll open up my task list and then sho…
I agree, seems like it would be very distracting to have something, doesn't matter what, constantly scrolling/updating on a non-primary display. I purposely put weather, stocks, news, social, etc. out of the way so I can focus on work. On Mac this is just the side-bar thingy with widgets for those things. My todo lists are always pen/paper because digital ones do not work for me. I get that there are people that use…
> They seem staged for the sole purpose of taking fancy pictures of them.
Yeah, exactly. And well said. It's like, I'll look at such products and think "wow!", but simultaneously I'm thinking "this is the exact opposite of the type of setup that someone who is serious about focusing on their work would want."
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#74Looks very slick. I'm not sure I understand why I'd want stock prices and social feeds on my desk though, but I guess that's configurable. I imagine this is a personal preference thing, but I've never really understood the appeal of having task lists and such in my face all the time, whether it be on a watch or a widget on my phone home screen or wherever. If I'm managing tasks, I'll open up my task list and then sho…
tools enable people to do more things. those things can increase or decrease productivity. at the end of the day, it's largely defined by individual settings.
examples: * if you in ops or management, and are in comm mode daily, need calls / messages with your team, this keeps you hooked up to everything going on. * if you are in engineering or research, and want to go into deep focus, you can use the widgets for things like code, logs, a lofi playlist, etc. * if you're a degen trader, you can also load up 5 twitter widgets and a stonk chart.
sure if the engineer used a degen trader dashboard, it would be counter productive. Google can't stop me from opening reddit / youtube on my browser, I don't blame them for making me less productive.
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#75How well do large power bricks (like for the largest Macbook Pros) fit in the power compartment? Do the USB-C ports support fast charging? (if not, I'm the kind of user that would still use a power brick to get that feature)
Your display should provide (fast) charging to your laptop.
I was referring to fast charging for the phone.
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#76How well do large power bricks (like for the largest Macbook Pros) fit in the power compartment? Do the USB-C ports support fast charging? (if not, I'm the kind of user that would still use a power brick to get that feature)
Apple's 60W chargers fit, and so do USB docks from Dell / Caldigit / etc. We even have a Legion gaming computer, and that thing's charger is literally wider and longer than a brick.
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#77Very sleek looking product. I see the display has oleophobic coating. Is the entire desk surface safe if I accidentally spill my coffee? If yes, that is a killer feature you may want to mention upfront. Most users would have that question.
good point vivegi! yes display is spill proof.
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#78Do you have a physical prototype? I’m curious how you got an entire desk surface to support wireless charging under an active screen, apple famously gave up on doing wireless charging and they didn’t have to contend with a LED screen to charge through.
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#79Those widgets look great. Since I saw something about a developer invite on the website, I wonder if a desktop dashboard app could happen? Also I couldn't quite tell if the desk's display can be touched or not, though I imagine it would make no sense to make it a touch screen.
yep you're right the display is not touch by design. Else it would be too sensitive to various ways people use their desk.
we want users to build their own "daily dashboards" using desk widgets
stuff you normally keep open, or glance at (chat msgs, calendar events, weather, email) but don't actively stare at (medium, code)
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#80What's the price of this?
The easiest way to stop someone having any interest in your product is to try and conceal how much it's going to cost them.
Even if you don't have a final estimate, what are we talking. 3k ?
>These can now be in your desk, playing a role similar to a paper calendar or newspaper, but now in a seamlessly digital format.
I have an iPad pro on my desk, it serves all these purposes. It's a smaller screen alongside my monitor for me to play music and stuff, maybe glance over and read the news.
I don't mean to come off as too harsh, but it's not clear what problems you're trying to solve.
Now if you did something like created a mat that I could put on an existing desk, or so.
I'd be open to buying it, as long as it's $1,000 or less.