{"id":2709,"date":"2015-02-04T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mydoorsignblog.com\/blog\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:09:59","slug":"the-tableair-standing-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mydoorsign.com/blog\/the-tableair-standing-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"The TableAir standing desk rises with a wave of the hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

An innovative standing desk from TableAir<\/a>\u00a0gives new meaning to the term \u201cmanual labor.\u201d The rectangular desk is outfitted with two distinctive features: ambient LED lighting, and, even more significantly, technology that allows users to adjust the desk’s height with the touch of a button and the wave of a hand, as Slate reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most natural way of [changing its] height is placing your hand in the air,\u201d explains TableAir\u2019s site. \u201cSmart Button senses the distance to your hand and lifts TableAir to match the height.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watch the TableAir in action here<\/a>. The goal of the desk? To \u201cbecom[e] an extension of your movements,\u201d allowing for sit-down or stand-up use. In addition to waving a hand in the air, the desk’s height can also be changed via a smartphone app, which lets users pre-program an automatic change.<\/p>\n

How does it work? The desk uses a sensor to spot you and adjust to your position. \u201cWhen you want to work standing up, you briefly press the button on the top, then hold your hand out in front of you to indicate the desired height. The sensor on top of the desk detects your hand’s height, and the motors move the TableAir up to match it,\u201d explains<\/a>\u00a0Wired. The desk can move from about 2 feet to around 4.25 feet. While the desk is adjusting, the ambient LED lights, which line the desktop’s periphery, light up.<\/p>\n

The TableAir desk hails from London-based designer Lukas Lukosevicius<\/a>, who tells Slate that the electric motor technology that\u00a0powers the desk is smooth and silent. But smooth and silent has a high price tag: $2,146, specifically, for a glossy black or white tabletop, with the cost jumping for American cherry wood or walnut. (One perk, despite the high price tag: the TableAir arrives assembled and ready-to-use.)<\/p>\n

Though forward-thinkers\u00a0like Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway used standing desks, the benefits of standing while working \u2014\u00a0or, more specifically, not sitting \u2014\u00a0have been especially hyped recently. Reduced risk of conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, is one of a handful of benefits of\u00a0limiting sitting time, reported<\/a>\u00a0Smithsonian Magazine. As James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic who has researched the impact of sitting, told the magazine, “The default has become to sit. We need the default to be standing.”<\/p>\n

Further, research suggests that exercising will not necessarily balance out an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. As the advocacy group Just Stand notes<\/a>, \u201cCombating sitting disease with added gym-time may not work: most people don’t have time for more exercise, and more exercise time may not even reverse sitting disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some tips for integrating standing into your daily routine \u2014\u00a0aside from opting for a standing desk, of course \u2014\u00a0include the following, courtesy of Just Stand:<\/p>\n