Apparently it’s not enough to exercise, if you spend 7-8 hours all day sitting on a chair. The same goes for watching TV, so don’t cheat yourself into chinking this is all about work. The report does seem serious, trying to prevent things like risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and early death. The conclusion of the research is very simple: sitting for longer periods of time is not good for your health, period. And if you’re wondering what “long” means you won’t be happy to hear it’s anything over three hours.

There is also a simple solution to this problem and that is trying to stand up while working from time to time. Yeap, work on your computer standing up at least a few minutes per hours, because compared to sitting, when you stand up your body does a lot of things including tensing your leg muscles, back and shoulders. More on this worrying report can be found here. Take this seriously and don’t think you’re not exposed to those problems if you use a laptop desk stand. Sitting too long is bad for your health.

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The positions we adopt when using mini notebooks (netbooks) or laptops are various and most of them causes pain: even if you lie down with your mini notebook backed on your thigh or on your stomach or sit down in bed or on a chair or if you stand up with your netbook in hand or on a table, almost every time you will feel an exquisite pain after a while, but knowing each position what causes might help us choose the best one (or the least worst to be correct).

Researchers considered especially the smaller devices and found that “a conventional small clamshell laptop is most comfortably used lying down in bed with the device on the thigh when the knees are kept up”. So, the conclusion is that, when you work on a laptop, you have to choices: or to have a bed with pillows at your office instead of a desk, or to buy a laptop stand for your desk, in order to prevent the pain that can occur when using the laptop in “bad” positions. There’s also the alternative of not using a laptop, or just occasionally, but I’m sure you’ll never do that.

Sitting position for small laptop use

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• Laptop desk stands: these are laptop stands that help you use the laptop on a desk better than you would normally do by laying it flat on the table. A laptop desk stand helps increase the height of the laptop screen keeping it level to your eyes and allow for better air circulation thus better cooling which means lower operating noise.
• Portable laptop stands: there are usually smaller and thinner laptop stands and can/must be carried together with the laptop. Portable stands help keep the heat of the laptop away from your lap acting like an intermediary surface and are often used while laying on a sofa or on the bed
• Rolling laptop stands: those are more complex because they’re more like a small desk with wheels than portable stands. Those stands are meant to be carried around the house while changing the place you want to use the laptop, from chair to bed, from sofa cu kitchen etc
• Cooling laptop stands: the main purpose of those stands is to cool hot laptops by sucking fresh air from the room and blowing it on the bottom of your notebook. They also act as a portable/desk stand so they’re more like a combination
• Peripheral laptop stands: those are regular portablet/desktop stands that are fitted also with peripherals like USB port hubs (USB data recovery tips can be found here), audio speakers for better sound and even webcams for video conferencing/messaging. It all depends on the creativity of the manufacturer.

Logitech Alto Cordless: desk stand with wireless keyboard

Those are the main types of laptop stands but there are a few that fall right in between these categories because they’re more like a cross breed between functions. All you have to do before deciding which one is right for you is make up your mind about what you need from a laptop stand and where will you be using it.

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A laptop stand is a device with few mechanical parts that lock in place and allow for a better use of a laptop/notebook/netbook by simulating a small desk. In the case of a desk computer stand the screen is also elevated at the level of the eyes, while for a portable laptop stand the advantage is the lack of heat in your lap that’s being transferred to the laptop stand.

A cool laptop stand

Adjustable laptop stands mean you can change the laptop stand height and usually also inclination, making it better fit your style or work. You can buy a laptop stand starting a few bucks to a few dozens it you talk about stands which include peripherals like cooling units, audio speakers and even webcams or docking station like ports (USB, Firewire, Serial, Parallel or VGA output).

There are various types of laptop stands but they will be presented in a future article at Laptop Stand Set.com. The idea of this post is defining what a laptop stand is and we believe it’s worth summing up what we’ve said above: a laptop stand is like a shelf that can sustain the weight of a laptop while keeping heat away from your lap and helps offer a more ergonomic position while working on your portable computer.

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We bet the first thing you ask yourself when entering LaptopStandSet.com is what’s the purpose of this site as laptop stands are not quite the most exciting IT&C products to write or read about. You’re half true as it’s not that exciting but someone has to do it because laptop stands play a very important role in your life keeping you healthy while using a laptop, notebook or netbook.

A Belkin laptop stand

Many people don’t realize the biggest benefit of using a desktop computer: you have to stay at a desk and that means an ergonomic chair, a big desk to lay your hands on plus a cool place (you don’t keep your PC unit in your lap burning at 40 degrees).

That’s the benefit of using a PC. Once you switch to a laptop you have the freedom of using it laying in bed, on the kitchen table, on the sofa or in your car. While all those places are good for their purpose they’re not made for using a laptop. You’ll end up using the laptop in the most non ergonomic style, which in future means all the health problems you can imagine from carpel tunnel because your hands don’t have the proper support to urinary/sexual problems if you sit with tour hot laptop in your lap all the time and the list goes on.

Trust us, a laptop stand can mean you can keep using a laptop for longer without having to worry about health, but remember that prolonged used of the computer can lead to vision problems and even psychological problems. If we haven’t already made you leave enjoy LaptopStandSet.com and don’t forget to tell your friends about it.

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