Workstation

Looking to attract attention to its Urban camper van, VanTourer presents a special concept. An unapologetically loud, bright camper, the compact show van wears a blinding shade of neon and swaps its indoor/outdoor kitchen for a mobile mini-office.

Virtually any camper will provide a tabletop on which to plant a laptop, but Sunlight takes the mobile office a step further, demonstrating how a dining table-cum-desk can support everything from basic office work to scientific fieldwork.

HP has announced its lightest consumer laptop, which comes in at under a kilo. The Pavilion Aero 13 features a 2.5K screen with a 16:10 aspect and thin bezels, rocks AMD Ryzen 5000 processing brains and promises over 10 hours of use per charge.

At the Mobile World Congress 2021, Lenovo has launched a laptop powerhouse for creators and prosumers called the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4, and a bunch of accessories under its new Go brand, including a wireless charging pad for laptops.

The all-new Tactical Field Office from Helinox supports the new generation of work-from-anywhere nomads. The lightweight, portable wandering office solution packs a mini-desk into a hard-framed carry bag that weighs less than 5 lb (2.3 kg).

One of the many cultural shifts driven by the COVID-19 pandemic is the growing number of people working from home, and furniture-maker Pith & Stem is looking to tap into this trend with a workstation that you mightn't even know was there.

Nissan explores how "work from home" could become "work from van." Its work-optimized NV350 creates a quiet, private 9-to-5 space in the city or the wilderness. The concept van has an indoor/outdoor sliding office and a rooftop lounge.

Korg has today unleashed the Nautilus performance synthesizer and workstation, which harnesses the power of its flagship Kronos system, but is presented in a more streamlined packaged designed for musicians, songwriters and producers.

Taiwan's MSI has launched new mobile workstations designed for power users like architects, engineers, graphic artists and design professionals. One boasts a huge battery and the other features a 4K mini-LED display.

Cemtrex might not be well known in the world of office kit, but that hasn't stopped it launching what it regards as "the most advanced workstation on the market." And with everything it's shoehorned in – including a gesture control system dubbed the "Stark Gesture System" – it may well be.

Hewlett-Packard's fourth generation Z workstations are aimed squarely at design and productivity professionals, with its pack leader, the Z8 G4 desktop computer, claimed to be the most powerful desktop workstation in the world.​

Oristand is a cardboard standing desk priced at just $25. Being made of cardboard has its disadvantages, but the low price is a definite plus that means anyone can use Oristand.