Ditch Your Office Chair for a New 'Standing Desk' | WIRED
Summary
Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic has a scary statistic to share: here in the US, we spend more than half of our waking hour sitting down, split between watching TV, driving a car, and working at a desk. Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist and research fellow in biology at Imperial College London who writes on the "influence of science and biology on modern life" for The New York Times, says, Jim Carlton writes, for The Wall Street Journal, " A 2010 study by the American Cancer Society found that women who sat more than six hours a day were 37% more likely to die prematurely than women who sat for less than three hours, while the early-death rate for men was 18% higher." The adjustable steel rod is designed to want to raise the platforms, rather than let gravity allow them drop, so you dont have to worry about your monitor slipping down to the desk level if you over-loosen the knob. The Safco Muv has two platforms for keyboard and monitor, and two additional shelves below for things like your printer, computer base, books, paper, kittens, stuff like that. Youll have to do all customization on your own–shelves and wire organizers are not options, nor are built in power strips, keyboard trays or holes to pass cables through–and the wait time for desk orders is up to 6 weeks, but they start at $924 (factoring in shipping, which might be more).