I hear there’s a movement to tear down cubicle walls. That’s all for the good, I suppose, though I always found their padding useful for those times when you needed something to bang your head against.

So what’s left if you remove the walls? I guess just a flat surface on which to place your notebook — and possibly one of those new picture frames that show off your family photos to give your workspace that homey-in-the-21st-century feel.

Here’s mobility to the extreme: the Ergotron Neo-Flex Mobile Workspace. You can work at this height-adjustable computer cart on wheels seated or standing. It can hold your notebook or an LCD. If the latter, it has arms to cling onto the CPU part of the computer on the back side of the base — out of the way of your feet.

It’s a cool idea if you’re limited in how much room you have for your computing work. And when you need to move it, you just roll it to a new location.

But I look forward to the day when we start seeing this kind of device truly customized. I refer, of course, to a version that includes a spin bike so I can move my limbs while I compute. And if it could be rigged up so I could generate the watts I need to keep my machine powered up at the same time, all the better.

Posted on December 8th, 2007 by dian