When I first saw the LapDawg o-Stand I thought that it was a pretty neat idea, but honestly didn’t know how useful it would be to me. On their website they show a lot of pictures of someone sitting on a couch and letting the o-Stand hold their tablet. Or someone was using it to hold their tablet next to their computer monitor, almost like it was a second or third monitor. I just honestly didn’t foresee myself using it for something like that, but boy, was I wrong.
As soon as I had it holding a tablet in the middle of the living room, my wife exclaimed that it looked like an alien with its four legs holding it up. I had to admit that, even though I have never seen an alien, it kind of resembled something from outer space. I quickly found that the legs were very agile and I could easily bend them into any position that I wanted. I sat down on the couch and set it on my lap. After that brief few minutes of playing with it I had to set it aside and get some other stuff done around the house. I had planned on having a picture taking session with it later in the week, or maybe taking it to work to see how I could use it there, but my week got very busy and I ended up just moving it from one place to another with good intentions of using it some more. As my wife and I were heading out for vacation to a secluded cabin in Kentucky, I decided at the last minute to throw the o-Stand into the car. I ended up being very glad I did.
Since this was a secluded cabin in Kentucky, we had no internet access. I was actually very glad for this as it is good for us to be unplugged every once in a while. I brought my tablets because they both have some good books on them, and also some good games that I could play while my wife was reading her magazines. The first night I was sitting in a chair, holding my TouchPad and playing Cross Me. That’s when my arm began to hurt holding the tablet at an angle so my neck wouldn’t hurt. That’s when I looked over and saw the o-Stand sitting on the couch by the front door. I immediately got up, got my TouchPad attached to the holder, and brought it back to the chair. It took me about 30 seconds to get the legs situated so that they wouldn’t move and get the tablet in the right position. After that I continued playing Cross Me, and neither my arms or my neck got tired. I then grasped the beauty of the o-Stand. It wasn’t just made to hold your tablet, it was made to hold your tablet in the perfect position so that you wouldn’t get neck or arm pain using it.
I set about to see what this stand could do, and find out if there was anything that it couldn’t. The only negative I can even say this stand has involves the actual nuts that hold the legs. At times they were a little hard to keep tight, and the hex wrench only has a fraction of an inch to grab the nut with. This minor issue is very easy to overcome however, and should definitely not deter you from picking up this stand.
I enlisted the help of my wife to pose as my model as we tried a whole lot of different ways to use the o-Stand. You can see in the gallery below we had a lot of fun using the o-Stand all over the cabin. You can also see close-up shots of the different parts of the o-Stand. The o-Stand stood up to every test we put it through. You can purchase the LapDawg o-Stand directly from their website for $79.00.