Laptop Bag Includes Built in Table

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/thankos-laptop-table-bag-stores-your-laptop-hides-a-table-sav/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/01/...es-a-table-sav/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"It's called the Laptop Table Bag and it looks like a surprisingly normal, if decidedly corporate-issue, laptop bag. But, out of the bottom pivots four legs to hold your mobile device at what may or may not be a comfortable height. The 5980 yen ($75) contraption weighs about six pounds empty."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/lpt/auto/1288829168.usr10.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p>At first I thought this was cool, but then as I thought about it, not so much. &nbsp;How often do you find yourself without a table or other suitable surface to set up your laptop on, yet you have the space/time to set something like this up? &nbsp;</p><p><em></em></p>

[Hooch Tan]

I could see some use for people with larger laptops, however, for those with netbooks or ultra-lights, I think most people would be just as good using it on their lap for most situations. I have been in some situations where it could be useful, like being at a friend's house where they have little surface space (they have kids) but I don't know if that happens often enough for me to really choose this bag over other options.

[ptyork]

The obvious place for this is waiting in an airport gate area. You can spend hours there with no good way to utilize your computer other then propped uncomfortably on your lap. Back in my travelling consultant days, I'd have spend the money to get one of these for those long waits in airports without lounges. Definitely. I probably wasted five potentially billable hours per week in gate areas. In fact, it may even have allowed me to leave the client site a little earlier each week, which would have been a godsend.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

6 pounds empty. I was afraid of that. I like the idea, but to make it practical is probably going to be too expensive.

[ptyork]

6 pounds empty. I was afraid of that. I like the idea, but to make it practical is probably going to be too expensive.

Yeah, well, when I was a consultant, the laptop itself weighed 9+ pounds (I usually opted for the light ones) without the power brick, network cables, mouse, etc. I also had a beast of a Targus bag that must have weighed 5 pounds with no legs. Probably 4 inches of padding to protect that $3500+ laptop. So, to me this still sounds reasonable quite reasonable. :)