Bluelounge StudioDesk for Laptop Users

It's like the folks over at BlueLounge read our mind (or our site, hopefully) about our search for a new desk when they emailed us today with this batch of photos of their new StudioDesk, a workspace specifically designed for laptop users and chock full of peripheral storing/hiding features that will appeal to anyone like ourselves who want to maximize our work area while minimizing the space it occupies...

The Bluelounge StudioDesk is a compact 47" wide, 27.5" deep and 29.5" high, but the mahogany wood detailed table is filled with storage options that put most work desks to shame, including a smart table wide slot for USB and power cables that snakes into a storage compartment where you can hide your myriad of USB hubs, power bricks, external hard drives and whatever else you'd rather keep from view. For this reason alone, we're quite smitten with this desk and the attention to detail in regards to cable management.

The whole setup is topped off with a faux leather mat for soft writing and ergonomic feel that also slides open to reveal the inside storage sections, with the rest of the top surface covered in white laminate, and the process of putting it altogether has been simplified to just attaching the legs. Available at the end of June for $599 from Bluelounge.

Comments (4)

Teriffic!!!! Nice consept, nicely finished!!! Great work!!!

And the price is great. Even for me in Germany it would be an option as the $ is low :-]

posted by BerlinDirk on June 9th 2009 at 5:13am
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If only they can make laptops where the screen can detach from the keyboard so the screen can be seen at eye level.

The current laptop configuration requires you to constantly look down at a screen and type on a keyboard on a table where your elbows are not set at 90 degree angles. Laptop use has caused me to suffer horrible neck and back cramps. I don't see this table addressing that issue in anyway.

posted by jchan on June 9th 2009 at 6:02am
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I have those speakers...my question is where do you put the subwoofer on this thing/
And how do you keep the powerbar cool if it's in a shelf? They heat up quite a bit.

I dunno - it's pretty but I have a lot of questions.

posted by alisaan on June 9th 2009 at 8:53am
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jchan: any thoughts on using a laptop riser (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook_products/stands/devices/5494&cl=us,en) or stand (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/notebook_products/stands/&cl=us,en) like the ones from Logitech?

alisaan: don't subwoofers usually go on the floor or the desktop, depending on size? And I see a slot running most of the width of the desk, shown in pictures 1-5, 7, and 8. Presumably hot air would rise and escape through this slot. Cooler air could enter through the grommets located at the back corners of the storage compartment.

posted by youngho_yoon on June 9th 2009 at 11:04am
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