Category Archives: Standing Desk News

Standing Desk On The Cheap

We’ve written about inexpensive standing desks before, but this one may take the cake (being about the same cost, but even easier to set up than the FedEx shipping boxes hack we wrote about a while ago). The CEO of … Continue reading

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A School Full Of Standing Desks

The best way to learn good habits is to start young. With all of the evidence that has come to light as of late regarding how bad sitting is for your body, why is it that we don’t give children … Continue reading

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MultiTable.com: Inexpensive Standing Desks

Multitable.com is a standing desk company based in Phoenix, AZ that specializes in their own brand of height-adjustable work surfaces, the ModTable. Offering both hand-crank and electric varieties, MultiTable.com offers the choice to buy only the steel frame and use … Continue reading

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Ten Marathons Without The Actual Running Part

Lifehacker is a well-known proponent of standing desks (or at least a well-known clearing house for articles about standing desks), and they’ve recently come out with their newest article on the matter, entitled “Standing on Weekdays Burns Calories Like Running … Continue reading

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Computerized Standing Desk

Don’t you just hate how you have to manually (either through a lever or button) adjust the level of your height-adjustable standing desk? Well, that will soon be a thing of the past thanks to the Stir Kinetic Desk! The … Continue reading

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$22 IKEA Standing Desk

Want to try out a standing desk, but don’t have $650+ lying around to buy one of the pre-made, adjustable types available? Thanks to some IKEA hardware and the folks at iamnotaprogrammer.com, you too can craft an inexpensive, decent looking … Continue reading

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Sit or Stand: Which is best?

Researchers at Cornell University’s Ergonomics Department have, upon much research, come to the conclusion that neither sitting, nor standing, is good for one’s body. Huh? Well, if you read the results they published it comes down to one thing: moderation. … Continue reading

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TrekDesk CNN Video

TrekDesk, reviewed in the previous post, was featured on CNN’s Edge of Discovery program.

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Online Standing Desk Timer

Looks as if someone has gone ahead and created an online timer application that can track how long you’ve been standing (or doing anything else, I suppose). The app is free, links up with your Google account and is pretty … Continue reading

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Standing Desks @New York Times

Standing desks have made a few appearances over at the New York Times as of late. The first article, “Stand Up While You Read This!“, details the dangers of sitting for too long and the benefits of making the change … Continue reading

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