Logitech’s Lapdesk N700 Adds Comfort to Laptop Computing

As one of the largest makers of peripherals in the world, Logitech usually unveils some pretty cool product at CES. This year was a little different, though, as the company surprisingly only had one product to show off on the show floor. Yes, just one. The situation was similar to last year, where there were also few, and of those few, most were upgrades.

Either way, the one product that was showed off is pretty interesting, despite it being a notebook dock of sorts. The original name for our  mobile PCs was “laptops”, and I think it’s easy to understand why the “lap” moniker was dropped fairly quickly. it sucked to use a PC while being scolded… it’s not difficult to figure out that heat was a problem.

As a result of this issue, laptop coolers have become all the rage, and even companies like Cooler Master are dedicating entire lines to them. But Logitech’s is a bit different, because it’s not just a cooler, but a tray for allowing to you use the laptop on, get this… your lap, and also to increase the sound capabilities of your notebook.

To make the Lapdesk as comfortable as possible, the entire bottom is essentially a cushion, which I believe is removable. It’s also not an entirely flat bottom, but rather curved so that no matter the position you are sitting, the notebook will be raised up a little bit in order to increase the comfort further.

On both sides are small speakers, which utilize your notebook’s sound card to deliver far better audio than what your tinny notebook speakers could provide (assuming you don’t have a notebook that has better-than-normal speakers). Oh, and there’s of course the fact that the Lapdesk cools your notebook, with user-adjustable fan speeds.

I’m unsure of a launch date, but it should be soon. When it does launch, it will sell for a suggested price of $79.99.