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by laumars 1782 days ago
Adjustable tables would solve that problem. I have one and it’s brilliant, days when I’m feeling lazy I can sit at it but days when I need better focus I can press a button and it turns a motor on to raise the desk.

It doesn’t go low enough to squat though. I doubt many would.

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An adjustable desk that goes low enough to kneel in front of it would be interesting.

It would be quite difficult mechanically however. In a normal adjustable desk you only go from 1x to 1.5x height, which is trivial. With a table you can use while kneeling you would need to go to 2x height to sit in front of it or to 3x height to use it standing, all while maintaining the stability we expect from a table.

Mine more than doubles in height and does so using a 3 part telescopic legs. Given how small some telescopic ladders can compress to and how low my desk already goes with just 3 parts, I’m reasonably confident it’s not that difficult of an engineering challenge to build a table that could compress lower than mine.