Save Your Lap from Your Laptop

While the term "notebook" has become more popular, people still toss around the word "laptop" with ease. I'm not sure why, because many people use them on desks -- though often at angles that are bad for their eyes, necks or wrists. Even if you do put one on your lap, they quickly become shift-from-one-leg-to-the-other-tops, because things get toasty pretty quickly.

Hence the popularity of laptop stands, which are generally designed to work on your lap or on a desk. Lapworks' $29 Laptop Desk Futura, however, ably handles both. The 16-oz stand vents heat through its ventilation slots, and can work laid out flat for your lap, or folded at one of five angles to help elevate the screen and they keyboard.

And since fashion sense seems to be the theme of the day, I should also mention that in the next few months the Laptop Desk Futura will be available in a variety of custom colors.