Looks like a Miura fold: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold</a>.
When going to theme parks and the like, I love folding the physical maps like this. It's nice that the maps stay rigid when fully open, and the single-motion for opening and closing is glorious.
I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago.<p>On the positive side, kudos to whomever in marketing/pr at the design firm got this useless product so much press.<p>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 led to the iconic vegetable peeler that then bled into the "design language" of every product at OXO.
The article is seemingly outdated.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.<p>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.<p>This should have been a tutorial, not a product.
A couple of points.<p>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.<p>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.<p>As already mentioned by andrei_says_, typing fingers should be below the wrist (as correct piano playing has proved for centuries).
Or save yourself $22: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5G1HFXY1U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5G1HFXY1U</a>
On top of all of the other criticisms, this isn’t functionally what I want. I still would end up looking down to see the laptop.<p>I guess it’s better for people who only work on laptops and don’t want to have separate keyboards and pointing devices.<p>I travel a lot and I use a Roost laptop stand<p><a href="https://www.therooststand.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.therooststand.com/</a><p>A standard Apple keyboard and mouse, and a portable USB powered monitor that gets power and video from one USB cable and monitor stand<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4KH2GH3" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4KH2GH3</a>
It blows my mind that stands like this one as well as keyboards are designed with an incline requiring constant tension in the wrists.<p>The natural position of the fingers when typing is below the wrist not above it.
I don't see much point to this, it barely props up your laptop at all. You're still going to get tech neck. I recently got a nexstand, external keyboard, and mouse and it has been amazing.
I love my Rain mStand. It's made of cast aluminum, looks great, works great, and I've had it for....15 years?<p>At some point I'm sure I could easily recycle it.
Does anyone remember when standing desks started taking off…maybe 2016ish and there was that company making cardboard props to convert your desk into a standing desk. Amazing how well those worked for being cardboard.
Am vaguely reminded of a fancy apple-style aluminum stand I saw in an ad recently. That one is probably a lot more expensive.<p>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.<p><a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tjena-storage-box-with-lid-black-20469299/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tjena-storage-box-with-lid-blac...</a>
It'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.
It's a wonderful design, but like many recyclable products, the price isn't low enough to convince the average consumer.<p>Like someone else said, release the instructions.<p>If you want to make an environmental impact, you have to make something people are willing to buy. That's why Tesla became so successful, no one cared 10 years ago when it was a status symbol. Once it got to like $40k it sold like crack.
I 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.
This reminds of the fantastic lecture 'A world from a sheet of paper' given by Tadashi Tokieda at Oxford: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU</a>
This looks like the kind of thing you get given as a cheap branded gift in a conference and it breaks before the conference is over. As soon as you put enough downward force to damage one of the folds or it gets damp, you're heading directly to rip-city.
Anybody has an idea on how the industrial process for this kind of origami works? I've seen videos online and it requires a lot of pinching and folding. I'm very curious to know how a machine could do that.
Selling a piece of cardboard for $22 is an amazing achievement, recycled or not. It's beyond my comprehension. The world is at the same time much too poor and much too rich. I'm already sensing the throwing away of perfectly good (and forever durable) plastic and metal laptop stands, to be replaced by this glorious virtue signal.<p>AAaand let the down-voting of my opinion begin....
this seems kind of absurd... I have a laptop stand. it collapses into my hand. its made from steel. it cost me $15. it will last much longer than this.
doesnt look comfy to type on the laptop with that edge at the bottom. My wrists wouldn't like it.<p>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.
Oh, I didn't expect that much skepticism. I love the idea and I love companies that are trying to create beautiful and sustainable things. They even try to give people a place that usually don't fit in.<p>Yes, you can fold one yourself (will it be stable enough though?). Yes, I wouldn't use it for a laptop either. But for a tablet it could work really nice.<p>Also shipping it around the world is a bit silly, like with most things. Too many people will order on Amazon or buy fruits from the other side of the world without a second thought. Get off your high horse.
Wow, such a bad vibe here!<p>It's foldable. It's light. It's made of recycled material. It's cheap enough.<p>Seems pretty smart to me.
What's the benefit of this, compared to using nothing; i.e. laying the laptop flat on the table?<p>It looks like you're only straining your wrists against the increased keyboard angle.<p>Where is the tutorial for <i>making</i> this piece of shit, rather than shipping it halfway around the world on an exhaust-spewing, whale-killing freighter? Oh, it's recycled, pardon me.
The stand is crap as the wrists are placed on a serrated looking rim of a stand. As soon as anyone puts their hands on it wrong way it is a goner. And the price is in line with Versace.
If whoever did this cared about recycling they would just tell people how to do this.<p>If the people who bought this cared about recycling rather than having a virtue signaling conversation starter they wouldn’t have bought it.<p>This is insane, the carbon value of $22 is high enough without the garbage of shipping this crap all over the country and possibly the world.