Do you know what a smart desk is? What are the characteristics?

When we sit at our desk and work hard, we tend to be so absorbed that we forget to adjust our posture or exercise our muscles. In the long run, it will easily lead to health problems. But what you may not expect is that today's smart desk can remind you of this. They can not only automatically adjust the height, but also tell you how long you have been sitting and when it is time to stand up and move. Even some smart desks have many functions, which are already beyond the scope of a desk.

Smart desk 3

Autonomy's latest generation of smart desk 3 smart desk is such an intimate partner. Its biggest feature is that a touch screen is embedded in the desktop, which is connected to the smart phone through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, so as to interact with the APP on the mobile phone. Of course, this touch screen is compatible with both Android and iOS systems.

This design of embedding the tablet into the desktop is not the first, but what makes Smart Desk 3 shine is that it deliberately tilts the tablet, and the screen and the desktop are tilted at 25 degrees, which is convenient for users to view. It also comes pre-installed with many applications, such as online shopping platforms Delivery.com and Google Calendar, and can be connected with other smart home devices, such as thermostats and sensors.

Of course, the most intelligent device, its most intelligent place is to install a virtual AI assistant. When you write down information such as making coffee, checking the weather and loading playlists on the screen, the tablet will take a week to find out your work habits, and then remind you to drink water, eat, charge your mobile phone, or adjust the table to a standing position to reduce hip fatigue.

Of course, such a smart desk is not cheap. At present, the preferential price is $500, equivalent to about RMB 3300.

Dynamic desk M 1

We say that the smart touch screen on Smart Desk 3 is not the first one, so we have to mention another company, Stir, whose Kinetic Desk can raise the desktop by clicking on the touch screen. After a long time, the system can learn the user's private mode and make automatic reminders, but the initial high price of $3,990 discouraged many people.

Later, Stir introduced an upgraded version of Kinetic Desk M 1, and the price dropped to 1000 dollars, so as to harvest the market.

This table also has beautiful mechanical legs, which are said to be useless for 30 years. Users can set the time ratio of standing posture and sitting posture of their desks, and if there are multiple M 1 desks, they can also synchronize them through Bluetooth identification code.

Shared table

ReMago, a Swiss creative agency, and CloudProject, an Italian technology company, have jointly developed a slightly boring product, which aims at solving the problem of how two people can work at the same time with only one computer.

This product is called Sharetable, which is not much different from our traditional desk in performance, except that wires and cables are integrated in the legs and desktop. This smart desk has two display screens on the desktop, one of which is only 7 inches in size, providing PC and component control functions; The other screen is on the opposite side, which is a 2 1.5 inch screen 1080p multi-touch display screen, and two people working at the same time can interact through these two displays.

In addition, the functions of Sharetable are quite complete, including integrated microphone and speaker, 3G/LTE modem, temperature and humidity sensor, NFC authentication system and so on. If there is such a desk, the grade of the office will definitely improve instantly, but some people question that these functions are not practical.

Therefore, in the field of smart desks, there are more and more entrants, and the price of new equipment has also decreased with the progress of technology. If necessary in the future, having an intelligent and adjustable desk should not be too far away.

But the real question is, do we really need a table with so many functions? When merchants abruptly gave a desk the role of intelligent control center and sold it at such a high price, didn't they expect smartphones to do better in this respect?