(I forgot to put mine on in the excitement of trying the lift mechanism.) You just have to be mindful that raising and lowering the desk could affect the position of the cords. The desk comes complete with its own cable ties, so you can keep all your cords neatly tucked away. The 3cm thick laminate desktop is pleasant to the touch, but it could really do with a more modern design, or at least a wider variety of styles. There is an orange-coloured UpDesk as well, but it only comes in the medium size. It comes in three different sizes in your choice of maple, mahogany and black finishes. UpDesk assures us that customers would not be left out of pocket for missing parts or shipment damages. While the overall desk is built solidly, the plastic parts that make up the electric lift mechanism are prone to cracking, and there was a minor cosmetic flaw in the laminate that was probably the result of being bumped around in transit. If I had to do it again, I would take my time to make sure nothing is missing or damaged. It took about an hour to assemble on my own with a screwdriver, but you could easily do it in under 30 minutes with a friend and a power drill. The UpDesk arrives partially assembled in several heavy boxes. For safety reasons, the desk only moves for as long as you keep holding the up or down button. Once you get past the initial setup of the electronic controller, you can program the heights you want and switch between them by pressing one of the numbered presets and holding the up or down button. You can preset three different heights between 67cm and 108cm, and it can lift up to an impressive 136kg. This is where you control the twin-lift system that raises the desk by 3.8cm per second. Really, the only hint that this is not just any old desk comes from the digital readout on the programmable controller. Its elegantly inoffensive aesthetic starts with a contoured shape that makes it easy to reach further into the far corners of the desk from where you’re sitting or standing. The UpDesk is clearly a case of function over form, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It delivers all over the world, although you have to contact the company via the website to place an order and get a quote on delivery fees, which varies depending on location and time of year. UpDesk builds its products and ships them from its manufacturing plant in Nashville, Tennessee. UpDesk’s director of social media, Kamron Kunce, emailed me after I tweeted about wanting to try a standing desk. I had to choose between ugly, expensive, too small, or bolting shelves into the walls of my rented apartment. Plan B was to build one of the DIY standing desks previously published on Lifehacker, but that quickly stopped being fun. My original plan was to get longer legs for my existing Vika Amon tabletop, but a quick search at IKEA turned up nothing suitable. It’s not a bad strategy, considering the electronically adjustable desks will take a large chunk out of your home office budget. The company chooses to sell directly to the public in order to retain control of the sale from start to finish and keep prices down. UpDesk is also one of the better-known brands for ergonomic height-adjustable desks. The UpDesk product line has been around for about a year, but it’s manufactured by a company with over 40 years of experience in ergonomic furniture design. Height-adjustable desks are by no means new, but they’re a rare sight outside of specific corporate environments, especially if they’re electronic. UpDesk has a solution that lets you alternate between sitting and standing at the push of a button, but are the benefits worth the money? It depends. You’re damaging your body in all kinds of ways if your job requires you to sit at a desk, but standing for eight hours a day doesn’t sound appealing.
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