This desk doesn't look comfortable

[Tammy Rizzo]

On 8 Sep 2005 at 13:07, Dina Lerret wrote:

> http://www.meritline.com/computer-desks-ml-tp05-desk.html

> Is a person expected to lean forward or something?  Dude, my back is
> feeling 'sympathy' pains just looking at how you're suppose to lean
> over to view the computer monitor.
> 
> Dina

Actually, that's a rather comfortable-to-use desk, to the best of my understanding.  You see, 
you're not looking THROUGH the glass desktop to the monitor underneath.  You're using the 
glass desktop as a refracting surface, or possibly a reflecting surface, like a Heads Up Display 
in a jet fighter.  The monitor is set below the desktop and shines up onto the glass, and you 
just look at the glass in the desktop and see the image reflected from the monitor, as if you 
were reading a book on the table..  It's supposed to help with neck strain, eye strain, and 
attendant headaches, since you're not craning your neck upwards all the time, or looking 
upwards, either.

Of course, if you're like most people, you NEED the monitor up on top of the desk, to keep you 
from piling papers and stuff on the face of it, so you can SEE.  ;-)

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