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The Floating PowerBook

Posted by timothy on from the ooh-spooky dept.

Pingsmoth writes "With the proliferation of laptops today, many replacing the traditional space-hogging desktop computer, this seems like a neat idea to free up even more square footage on your desk. It's the floating laptop, a 'stand,' if you will, that is invisible to the average user and just as functional as other traditional laptop stands. The obvious appeal of the 'Floating Laptop' is its aesthetic quality, especially when compared to some of the other stands out there, but it's also cheaper ($15) and only takes a half hour to build."

7 of 236 comments (clear)

  1. Not convinced by JanneM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good luck typing on it.

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  2. Disappointed by Tx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From "floating" I thought this was going to involve waterproofing.

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  3. My god what is this place coming to? by matthew.thompson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First we have a guy who spends 1.5 years building something you can already purchase and now we have a guy who thinks he's clever because he re-invented the shelf!

    The iCurve is not that much more, far more stylish and when you count in the time can work out cheaper!

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  4. ishelf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's a shelf! wtf is this place coming to?

  5. Slashdot news - A SHELF! by mrRay720 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Front page news on slashdot today - a shelf.

    TO be honest you're doing this shelf a disservice anyway. It can hold much more than powerbooks, such as plates, magazines, monkeys, fish fingers, books, CDs, 750:1 scale whales, etc.

    A news item about a shelf is bad enough, but failing to give it a decent multifunction review is just criminal.

  6. This guy is an idiot by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Freaking cardboard... And hanging an expensive laptop on cardboard? WTF is he smoking??

    That little strip of wood in the back isn't enough to hold that thing up. Wait a few days and see what happens then get back to us. Let the humidity go up some. Here, it's in the high 90's all the time. That little project of his would last about 30 seconds and that laptop would be bouncing off the floor..

    That's about the worst idea I've ever seen. Visually it's cool but in reality, it's dangerous, this guy is going to lose that laptop..

  7. Re:Notes by Ninwa · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "I don't get it."
    Me either, and I'm not sure the editors even looked at the article. My first response was, "Wow that's ugly looking, I don't want my laptop poking out of the back of my desk like that". My second response was that, "I don't even have a back to my desk, there's no hutch", and my third response was, "wtf..." followed by some more bewilderment.

    This article summed up, "Hey you can mount your laptopn on the back of your desk with wood!"

    This is news? I was hoping for some cool glass-seethrough-ish laptop holder. Ah well...