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Corsair’s first standing desk is a huge and expandable all-in-one
The Platform:6 will be available sometime in the fourth quarter.
Sarah Fielding08.23.2023
The Tripod Desk Pro is a portable standing desk that upgraded my WFH setup
Engadget editor Mat Smith never found a standing desk that balanced versatility and compactness. But Intension's tripod standing desk, with a collapsible design and adjustable height, might be the solution. There are several ‘portable’ standing desks, but Intension’s ‘pro’ model, with particularly industrial legs and an optional wheel add-on, seemed the perfect fit.
Mat Smith03.22.2023
Fully’s Jarvis standing desk is good, but its customer service is even better
It's a great standing desk, but the customer service was above and beyond what I expected.
Nicole Lee09.21.2020
The work-from-home gear you should actually buy
Working from home is difficult even in the best of times. Here are some essential gadgets and services that can help you stay calm, cool, and productive.
Valentina Palladino04.10.2020
The best standing desk converters
By Kevin Purdy This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and Engadget may earn affiliate commission. Read the full guide to standing desk converters. If you want to incorporate standing into your work routine but a full-sized adjustable standing desk isn't an option, the Kangaroo Pro Junior is the next best thing. After building, testing, and comparing 15 standing desk converters, we found our pick of more than five years offers the most stable, ergonomic, and adjustable standing setup while taking up less room than most converters. All standing desk converters are an inherent compromise, an attempt to make one part of your non-moving desk move for your work. The Ergo Desktop Kangaroo Pro Junior makes the fewest ergonomic compromises of the converters we've tested without being too annoying to use. That's no small feat for this category, believe us. Being able to control the height of your monitor and keyboard tray separately makes the Kangaroo Pro Junior a better fit for more people. The monitor mount means your display is more stable and takes up less room than a monitor standing on a platform. And because you work on a flat, deep surface, rather than a narrow tray, you can use whatever combination of keyboard, mouse, and other tools best fits your work. The Kangaroo Pro Junior makes you do a little bit more work than some converters—turning knobs and gently lifting with your hands—but that pays off in ergonomically superior arm and neck angles. If you don't have a monitor you can mount to a VESA bracket or you want to use your laptop screen but still stand at your work, the VertDesk Standing Desk Converter is the best fallback option, and we mean that as a compliment. It's more stable than many other two-tier converters, especially its keyboard tray. It's smooth to raise and lower, it rises mostly straight up instead of lurching out like many converters, and it has some built-in cable routing that make it easier to create a good monitor setup. If you've got a sizable desk to dedicate to standing (that you don't want to trade out), and you know you won't need to switch out your setup for other work, the E7 by Uplift gives you the most convenient standing setup short of buying a standing desk. It weighs nearly 100 pounds and takes up 26 inches of desk depth (nearly 40 with an overhanging keyboard tray), but it's quicker and quieter than other electric converters we tested, looks better than most converters with a bamboo or rubberwood desktop options, and lets you use either a lowered keyboard tray or a flat work surface. If you only use your laptop to work and want to start standing, the Cora gives you a lower-cost, less-permanent way to do so. Using your laptop alone whether sitting or standing isn't a great ergonomic setup, and the Cora cannot fit a monitor. But it also works great with a laptop on a stand, a small keyboard, and a small mouse, making your sitting and standing angles ergonomically better, if not ideal. It's also the quietest, easiest to adjust, and best-looking laptop riser we tested.
Wirecutter05.03.2019
Adventures with a homemade standing desk
I, Dan Cooper, am today going to review some cardboard boxes. Not Google Cardboard, nor Luckies' Cardboard Smartphone Projector (which is coming in a few weeks), but some honest-to-goodness cardboard. More precisely, the box for my Nintendo Wii + Wii Fit starter pack, the packaging for a Dyson DC19 T2 Exclusive and an Image Business five-ream printer-paper box. I should add that I haven't been paid by any of the above companies, and each one came with the implement it was purchased with -- oh, except for the paper box, which my wife brought home from her office one day.
Daniel Cooper08.18.2014
Ergotron WorkFit-P Sit-Stand workstation: Get on your feet!
Ergotron has been making workstations for Apple machines for years, so it's no surprise that its latest products are perfect for the current line of Macs. Today I'll be providing information on the Ergotron WorkFit-P Sit-Stand workstation (US$299), an innovative idea to help knowledge workers get on their feet for at least part of the day while working instead of being glued to a desk chair. The evidence that sitting too much can be seriously bad for your health has been mounting for years. JustStand.org has some amazing numbers on the health hazards of sitting for prolonged periods every day -- a 2010 American Cancer Society study that was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology noted that women who sat more than six hours per day were 94 percent more likely to die during the study period than physically active counterparts who sat less for less than three hours each day. Martha Grogan, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, said that "For people who sit most of the day, their risk of heart attack is about the same as smoking". The idea behind the WorkFit-P is that you can spend part of your day slouched in your office chair staring at your MacBook, but then have the laptop raised to a comfortable height for standup work the rest of the day. Installing the WorkFit-P is quite easy, with two different methods available. First, if your desk has a pass-through hole for cables and whatnot, there's a special mount included for that. If it doesn't, then there's a strong metal piece with three screw-down clamps on it. I had some issues with the clamp method, primarily because my desk has a three-inch tall "lip" underneath the desk surface that kept me from using one of the clamps. However, just using two of the clamps, the WorkFit-P is still very stable and it's certainly not going anywhere. Ergotron includes all necessary hardware to install the stand, including several tools for tightening up the various screws and clamps. The surface of the WorkFit-P stand is a solid slab of aluminum that appears to be large enough to even hold one of the old 17-inch MacBook Pros. With a 13-inch MacBook Pro, the laptop had a good six-inches of space on either side when placed in the middle of the work surface. The aluminum surface is a perfect match to that of the MacBook Pro. So what holds up that aluminum slab? An impressively designed piece of hardware consisting of an adjustable arm. There's a cylindrical piece that sticks up from the desk mount about a foot. Attached to that is a rotating arm that can swivel a full 360° -- think of it as a very loose "shoulder". From that shoulder extends an arm that can be adjusted down to a desktop level or a high up as you find comfortable. The arm ends in a "wrist and hand" that holds up the slab, the "wrist" being able to swivel left or right as needed. Adjust the arm into a position and the entire assemblage stays put. Even putting a little bit more weight on the workstation surface -- say, a full coffee mug -- didn't move it. But if you need to adjust the surface or push it back down to a desktop level, just give it a good push and it moves accordingly. I did notice a slight amount of movement of the surface while typing, but it was very negligible and I got used to it right away. Now I usually do most of my work on a self-owned iMac (27-inch), but I have a corporately-owned MacBook Pro with Retina display that I use for work on our parent company's VPN. What I've started doing is sharing time between the two computers -- spending part of the time sitting at the "main" computer, but then trying to spend as much time as possible standing at the WorkFit-P to do writing. I'm finding that this is a very comfortable and surprisingly natural way to work. There's one side benefit of using the WorkFit-P and the MacBook Pro while standing. Sometimes while working on my iMac and find myself needing to look up slightly as the top of the 27-inch display is above my sight line. After a few hours of working at the iMac, I usually find that my neck and shoulders are killing me -- probably thanks to a pinched nerve I've had in my neck for about half of my life. When I'm standing at the WorkFit-P and typing on the MacBook Pro, my sight line is pointed down somewhat, taking pressure off of that nerve and lessening the pain. That in itself is enough of a motivation for me to spend at least part of the day standing and typing. While I was thinking about spending a lot of money on a high-end ergonomic chair, I think the WorkFit-P is a much more affordable and healthy alternative. Between helping to strengthen my legs and taking pressure off of my neck, standing part of the work day is already having some very positive effects on my well-being. Oh, and there's one other healthy benefit -- standing up while working burns more calories than sitting around. Desktop Mac owners shouldn't feel left out; Ergotron also makes a number of different WorkFit models that can hold multiple monitors or even -- in the case of the WorkFit-A -- an iMac. Conclusion Ergotron's WorkFit-P Sit-Stand workstation is an affordable and beautifully-designed piece of hardware for making your work life as comfortable and ergonomic as possible. Anyone who spends a good portion of his or her day working on a MacBook should consider the benefits of a standup/sitdown work surface like the WorkFit-P. Rating: 4 stars out of 4 stars possible
Steve Sande04.17.2014
Case Study: Standing at your Mac to save your back
BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. "Short of sitting on a spike, you can't do much worse than a standard office chair," says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This article caught my eye because just about a month ago, I bought this standing desk from Amazon.com. I had been in the market for one for a long time but had held off because they are usually ridiculously expensive. At the time, that desk cost me $96 ($86 + $10 shipping, all prices USD); it may have been a pricing error because that same desk today is selling for $277 + $7.50 shipping or you can buy a pack of two for $723 + $73 shipping! (Like I said, it's ridiculous.) Reading up on others around the web using various different desks, it is not unusual to see people spending over $1000 for a "standing desk," especially custom made. You can spend much, much more. I'm not trying to sell you on this particular desk, but to answer the question that everyone seems to ask me when they see it: "How well does it work? Aren't you tired of standing all of the time?" Read on for more...
TJ Luoma05.09.2010