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    For the ultimate combo of computers and laziness: The Bed Table.

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by ryanlecocq, May 5, 2014.

  1. ryanlecocq

    ryanlecocq Notebook Consultant

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    I built and I believe invented this for my girlfriend's Christmas gift last year. You know how you want all of your technology in your bed, but cables are always an issue? Solved. Also you can eat, drink coffee and charge your phone, tablet or e-cigarette. Gaze on it and despair for the sloth of mankind.

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  2. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    I made myself the Bed Table mini two years ago. No need to have it on wheels since I don't have to share my bed with another human. But I do like your idea. It be a a solution for us lazy folks.

     
  3. kneehowguys

    kneehowguys Notebook Evangelist

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    I really wanna use a computer with a avegant glyph and to one handed wireless controllers and just lie in bed

    and surf the web

    Or use both hands with a gamecube like device..

    Just lie down and surf the web, not move, and forget about my body. Just be a cursor floating in the web. But the problem is that typing. So hard!

    Is there a playstation like controller than can you use to type on?

    Is there a practical way to do that?
     
  4. Splintah

    Splintah Notebook Deity

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    I just have my desk right next to my bed. This way you can use a desktop computer just put the keyboard on top of your stomach. The mouse is a little difficult but get a hard mousepad like the alienware and you don't have to move all day.
     
  5. ryanlecocq

    ryanlecocq Notebook Consultant

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    Not 100% sure on this, but I bet if you had a wireless xbox controller with receiver and connected a chatpad to it, it would work.
     
  6. Splintah

    Splintah Notebook Deity

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    Yea I basically do that with a wired 360 controller. It's gotten to the point that unless a game supports the controller I probably won't buy it.
     
  7. LukeGeauxBoom

    LukeGeauxBoom Notebook Consultant

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    Dude that's awesome and much better than the desk I built.

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  8. kneehowguys

    kneehowguys Notebook Evangelist

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    You can control your laptop with an xbox controller?

    I don't have an xbox.
     
  9. ryanlecocq

    ryanlecocq Notebook Consultant

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    Nope, you would still need a lapboard in addition. You could do it with SteamOS in big picture mode, but I honestly don't recommend that to anyone who can just install any other linux distro and then install Steam on it.
     
  10. Splintah

    Splintah Notebook Deity

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    Yea is steamos more optimized than ubuntu or something

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  11. ryanlecocq

    ryanlecocq Notebook Consultant

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    Valve claimed that it would be, but most tests have shown that not to be the case. SteamOS is just a stripped down linux distro with Big Picture Mode slapped on top. It seems to run games exactly the same as any other version of linux and has no more compatibility.