Desk

Adjustable standing desks may have the potential to be good for your health, but they don't work if you don't use them properly. The Autonomous Desk can be used for sitting or standing and will notify you if you've done either for too long. It also learns, talks, organizes and manages appliances.

Sharetable is all about simplifying interactions around a computer. Instead of having two people grappling for control, with awkward exchanges of mouse and keyboard and adjustments of screen position, it gives them both a screen – one of which, along with the PC/Mac, is embedded in the desk.

There's now plenty of evidence that sitting for long periods increases mortality risk, even if we exercise regularly. So if you spend your days at a sedentary desk job, the Elevate standing desk might interest you. It combines ergonomics with an elegant design at a price that won't break the bank.

With Kids Imagination Furniture, The Cardboard Guys are hoping to foster children's creativity, allowing them to build and decorate their own desk and chair set. Made to be strong, easy to build, and recyclable, Kids Imagination Furniture offers a viable alternative to more traditional sets.

Lapdeck combines the comfort of sitting on the sofa with the good posture and productivity levels associated with sitting at a desk. As a bonus, it's collapsible down to the size of an envelope, and made from recyclable cardboard.

We've kept a pretty keen eye on the standing desk movement here at Gizmag. The team behind MisterBrightLight is the latest to take a stand on the stubborn nature of standard office furniture, launching a smart desk whose height can be adjusted by hand gestures when you've been seated for too long.

Dry erase boards are a great way to jot down ideas, schedules, or anything else that's going to be temporary. Wrap aims to take that concept and apply it to an entire desktop, but without requiring users to purchase an entire new desk. Instead, it simply covers the top of an existing one.

In a tip of the hat to the days when we relied on specially shaped horns to amplify sound, Korean student Jina U's Soundbox Desk is a unique design that uses a phonograph to amplify the audio from your smart phone, all without the need for electricity.

Standing desks come in all different shapes and sizes, but the Wall-Mounted Standing Desk is the first that doubles as a piece of modern art. Comprised of a wooden spine affixed to a wall, plus two shelves that can be removed at will, the Wall-Mounted Standing Desk is a unique solution.

If the amount of crowd-funding being thrown at standing desks is anything to go by, it won't be long before the office chair goes the way of the typewriter. The latest comes from home office specialists iSkelter, whose Lift is a stylish bamboo unit designed to improve posture and productivity.

Be it for health or comfort reasons, it looks like standing desks are here to stay. Using a digital manufacturing technique, the creators of the Press Fit standing desk are looking to strike a balance between affordability and a more traditional form factor with the Press Fit standing desk.

The more we hear about the health risks involved with sitting too much, the more popular standing desks become. Such desks can be expensive, though. The StorkStand offers a clever alternative. It's a mini standing desk that attaches to the back of your office chair.