Hi-Tech Desk Concept Includes Integrated Laptop Dock

This concept desk looks like standard Ikea fare upon first glance, but a closer examination reveals a recessed middle that's contoured for a custom Samsung laptop to dock into. Once locked in, the laptop keyboard sits flush with the rest of the desk, bringing new meaning to the term desktop PC. A novel idea, but I'd be more sold on the idea if it included connections to external accessories, like hard drives and speakers, when you docked the computer into the desk. [Yanko Design]

2:00 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Adrian Covert
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Out2gtcha at 02:17 PM on 03/12/08
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Interesting and possibly useful concept, but the table looks like a sparse POS.
ripfire4 at 02:17 PM on 03/12/08
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The desk itself doesn't seem like it would serve more than just for computer use. I mean, sure, you can have the top turned over for other surface use. But if you want the computer, do you just swat all of your stuff out of the way?
SchruteBuck at 02:20 PM on 03/12/08
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The levitating laptop looks like a new concept.
Viva La Volvo at 02:25 PM on 03/12/08
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This will make that inevitable cola spill so much more tragic.
archercc at 02:28 PM on 03/12/08
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Meh, Id rather have what I have now which is a shelf on my desk where my dock sits and I drop my dell into it to make it work with all of the full size bits.
Amiash is not allowed at 02:29 PM on 03/12/08
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can we sit on it?
yougottabekidding at 02:31 PM on 03/12/08
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And...when the time comes to replace your laptop with another, newer model? I guess you're stuck with a less than impressive piece of over priced crap.
flyboy at 02:36 PM on 03/12/08
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uuuuh heat?
j4sk868 at 02:48 PM on 03/12/08
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Now not only will you have to buy a new laptop after two years because it is obsolite but you will also have to buy a new desk. (cuz trust me the new ones will not fite in the old style) awesome! ill take two.
flyboy at 02:52 PM on 03/12/08
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@j4sk868: then it must be a Mac
Mith at 02:54 PM on 03/12/08
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It just doesn't seem practical at all, if a laptop is built for being compact and portable, whats the point of making a docking station for it?

Along with that the table looks so simple its almost obnoxious... this new age style is leaving me behind in a smoke of dust...
flyboy at 02:56 PM on 03/12/08
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before I get all the Mac Hater comments can't you guys lighten up and take a leeeetle joke :-)
ANoel at 03:24 PM on 03/12/08
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@flyboy:
Macs are NO laughing matter ...

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Zander at 03:25 PM on 03/12/08
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Why isn't there a mouse in the desk too?!
desostros at 03:37 PM on 03/12/08
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Yanko sucks.
Their designs are never realised nor are they special.
Out2gtcha at 03:47 PM on 03/12/08
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@ANoel:
They are SO a laughing matter!!! I always get a good laugh out of macs.....
Out2gtcha at 03:47 PM on 03/12/08
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@Out2gtcha:
Hater!! Hater, hater, hater, hater!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
SigmundTheSeaMonster at 03:54 PM on 03/12/08
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So tell me the truth, is Gizmodo in bed with Yanko? I keep seeing this Yanko Design crap here. Who really gives a F-ck? I want to see "real world" gadgets and gizmos, not some "imagined" hyperbole.

Please. Post real stuff we can use or will use. Not some 3D poster of a designer's render wet dream.
flyboy at 04:13 PM on 03/12/08
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@SigmundTheSeaMonster: someone's friend works there. don't you know?

whty can't Yanko drop an expensive camera for their fame?
SigmundTheSeaMonster at 06:16 PM on 03/12/08
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@flyboy: Ohhh! I got it!!! Wink wink. nudge nudge. Say no more. (feels really small...oops shrinkage...)
nutbastard at 06:44 PM on 03/12/08
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@flyboy:
perhaps if that "joke" wasn't made in every thread that mentions computers... i think it outranks all your base, will it blend and doom combined.
FizzyPopMan at 08:12 PM on 03/12/08
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I prefer this one, which looks like it might actually be making it into production (but then we've heard that before haven't we!).

[www.milk.dk]
Jakus at 04:23 AM on 03/13/08
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erm, im sorry. but ergonomics? i can feel the back of my neck seizing up just looking at the picture!