Moft Z is a standing desk that fits in your laptop bag

Enlarge / Although the stand is very light, it's stable once constructed. In this shot, we tried it out with the laptop on sideways. (credit: Jim Salter)

Standing desks are great, but even the add-on variety are normally far too big and heavy to travel with you. In the long, long ago-prior to COVID-19 isolation-I did a lot of traveling, a lot of working from hotel rooms, and a lot of grouching about hours of sitting on dubious chairs wrecking my back.

In January 2019, Moft released its first folding laptop stand-a relatively unambitious design that just angled the laptop for potentially more ergonomic typing. The construction should appear immediately familiar to nearly anyone with a tablet-it's the same lightweight, soft-clad fiberglass core you'll find in countless tablet cases with built-in stands.

The company's new design, Moft Z, is a bit more ambitious-it can provide a 25 or 45 angle for seated laptop use, a 60 angle for propping up a tablet, or a full 10-inch lift for a standing laptop experience. Moft Z isn't shipping yet-the preorders it is taking now are scheduled to ship in June-but the company provided us with a review sample of the final product.

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