Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Half-Price Gaming Cockpit”.
The desk, the killer of health and happiness we spend more time sitting than ever before and it is literally killing us back pain, cardiovascular disease, depression. I don’t want any of that stuff, but I sit at work, sit in the car and then sit at my gaming piece. I’M gon na die you’re right Linus, but not anytime. Soon, let me introduce you to the Levis zero gravity workstation. It brings an end to back pain, giving Gamers workers and everybody else, an ergonomic dream seat to work and player wow. That sounds pretty good. Now, switching from sitting to lying down isn’t going to do much for your heart disease problems.
But if you’re going to be changed to your computer all day, you might as well be comfortable right. Adam um, not a boy almost as comfortable as I am segwaying to our sponsor. Build Redux takes the challenge and hassle out of building your own PC with configuration options, support guides to Aid you and competitive pricing versus building a PC yourself. Why not kick up your feet and let build Redux handle it for you so head to build redux.com, Linus and start your new build today.
This isn’t the first time we’ve covered a product that hopes to be a paradigm shifting workspace Revolution. The difference is that this one aims to do it on a budget kind of the zero gravity, workstation promises to eliminate all environmental distractions and muscle tension and with it Levis claims that gravity is no longer a problem. Those are some very bold claims. Now, when we talk about anything ergonomic, it’s important to keep the principles of ergonomics in mind and the major ones that concern desk workers are these. We want to maintain neutral positions as much as possible, so straight back supported back wrist straight rather than bent, Etc. We also want to reduce static load.
That is the amount of time that you spend activating your muscles in the exact same position. Finally, we want to reduce excessive motions by keeping the tools of our trade near at hand. It’S not the most stylish thing around with most of our colleagues comparing it to one of these and saying it looks less like a professional workstation and more like a professional wank station. But this isn’t about looks it’s about ergonomics, so the question is: is it comfortable? Can I give it a shot sure yeah, okay yeah you do have to kind of give it a give it a little Shuffle once you’re in it, though the Levis workstation in all of its black aluminum tube Glory here, does seem to cover our main ergonomic basis. Static load, I mean you’re, not even sitting you’re, pretty much lying down reducing motions. I mean on first glance, pretty much everything I could possibly need is within Arm’s Reach, but when it comes to neutral positions, I would say that the keyboard situation is not really ideal. It does have an elbow rest. Oh, where did that go? Okay, that’s not with an easy reach. Ah, oh awesome. Thank you! Ah, which way does this go again? I forget like that. It does have an elbow rest, but this is a neutral position for your hands, and this is what a typical keyboard posture looks like on the Zero Gravity.
Workstation or if you got a split or GO Keyboard, which is probably common for this product’s target audience. Then you’ll be better off, but it’s still not really perfect and that’s that’s kind of the common theme here. One of the best things about the Levis is that nearly everything about it can be adjusted, but one of the worst things about it is how difficult it is to do so.
Nearly every component, either bolts or screws together, and can only be adjusted with tools. Even the position of this plywood keyboard tray can only be changed, look, there’s no sliders or anything can only be changed with wood screws and once it’s assembled, the complete lack of hydraulics is pretty frustrating. I mean look, I’ve got this side table here, see I can put my mouse and my USB charging Hub my coffee Etc. But let’s say I wanted to change my posture a little to do this. I have to get out of my desk: lift up the whole frame, move the stand underneath to a different height and then set the desk back down and resume working. It’S simple enough, but it’s not nearly as elegant as their videos would lead you to believe.
First, the large chair makes it so you can’t really see where you’re moving the stand so lining it up requires a little bit of guesswork and second, once you’ve added all of your monitors and you’ve got the seat on here. Things get pretty heavy. The worst part is that if you switch to the lowest position, well, it’s easier to show than to tell once you’re in the cockpit it not only makes you feel like an astronaut ready for takeoff.
It is super comfy, the chair, or I mean really it’s more. Like a mattress is thick with four inches of foam padding, so you’ll never feel the wooden slats under it and it features adjustable lumbar support. You will need to take off the mattress screw in another lumbar piece and then put it back on in order to make that adjustment, but once everything is dialed in you, shouldn’t need to flex a single muscle to look at your monitor or monitors.
The lettuce makes up for a lot of its flaws with its flexible display configurations. You can mount multiple curved ultrawide monitors inside the frame put up to a 55 inch display outside the frame and with the purchase of additional connectors. You can go pretty much Buck Wild thanks to the sturdy construction of the frame.
You can mount displays of any weight you want as long as they have a compatible visible pattern, though, if you have a very heavy one, a above you, I would personally recommend some kind of backup safety strap in case something that happens. There are definitely some critical flaws, I’m noticing um. You basically need a Wired Mouse.
In case it falls, so you have some way of retrieving it to be fair. This is the lowest setting and it is called Sleep. There’S work, game, relax and sleep, but they actually expect you to adjust that horrible barfing multiple times a day.
I guess what do you think about the uh? What do you think about the mattress? Do you like it? I think that I definitely need like a steel plate here and some magnets on the bottom of my keyboard. I’Ve seen that before in other ones, yeah with the soft rubber on this keyboard, I never had any issues with it sliding I also this because I’m a little thicker than you. This is up a little higher, so it never caused me any issues.
But at this steep angle, it’s a just. Don’T just don’t shake too much. If you wiggle a little, the mattress is really nice yeah. I really enjoyed it, though I do wish that there was like an option for a non-leather cover, because I just get a little sweaty as the kind of boy who literally water cooled my chair. I could definitely see that being better. I can also see why they went with this wimpy skinny plywood here for the keyboard tray like.
On the one hand, it’s not the sturdiest thing ever, but on the other hand, unless you are absolutely cranking the adjustments for this, if it was any heavier, it would put a significant amount of weight on your lap because they don’t have any Hydraulics. I mean even if they put like a ratcheting mechanism up there, that would help this stay like lock in a place, oh yeah, and then, if you just had like a little release here, yeah yeah, maybe as a mod or something the pillows pretty okay, I mean It’S not, I wouldn’t sleep on a pillow like this, but it’s supportive yeah. I found that it lacked adjustment points.
You can kind of you kind of wrap it along the slats underneath and you can either go at the second slat or the first slat, and neither of them really fit me for my height, I see yeah. I think it’s the kind of thing that I would end up just kind of moving around every time. Anyway, I don’t know if you noticed this. The thing I said earlier remind me to tell you about something that bothers me so much when you are sitting dead center in front of the keyboard. That monitor is off to the side.
It’S like two and a half three inches off. That’S not their fault! That’S! That’S our fault! Oh that’s on you! That’S on me! There’S it’s on a TV mount because the Vasa it wasn’t ordeal getting this thing mounted. Okay! All right! That’S fair! I mean I think most of the problems could be pretty easily solved like it would be a a simple DIY mod to just put some rubber on here to fix the sliding issue yeah. But when you’re spending the kind of money you’re spending to get this, you kind of want those problems to be solved a little bit ahead of time.
That’S fair! One really cool thing I could see, though, is with headphones on looking up like this man, you’d be able to get in the zone like really well, oh 100 people would eat lunch just over there, and I would just be focused on my screen with my headphones On I didn’t notice anything kind of wild kind of lonely, though it wasn’t yeah. I also wouldn’t see anything going on any other time of day. It’S gon na be easier.
If I you just lift it up and I’ll just move it yep, it’s gon na, be so higher higher. Oh, my God! This is not very good, so convenient now at four thousand dollars, you’re, probably wondering why we’ve referred to the lettuce as the half price cockpit. It’S because similar products that we’ve looked at in the past cost twice as much or more.
They tend to be more richly featured with things like motorized adjustments magnetic mouse pads or even in the case of that wild one from Acer, an included gaming PC. But two levis’s credit they achieve a lot of the same end result at this much lower price, and if you don’t like it, they offer a two-week return window, though you will have to pay for return shipping. All of that is pretty good.
The bad is that it takes a long time to build, thank goodness for the LTT screwdriver lttstore.com and while you’re there don’t forget the metric hex bit set. The Levis uses five different sizes of hex bits. It also includes no cable management other than some straps, so it was an adventure and we’re gon na have the full build Vlog with Adam Upon floatplane.com.
A really uncomfortable moment for us in this review was when we realized that a lot of the selling points on the Levis website could be easily addressed by spending your four thousand dollar Budget on well, something else entirely wan na recline. Why don’t you buy an easy chair and a lap board prefer a big screen? Why don’t you sit in the recliner? You just bought, buy a TV because you got so much budget to spend and mount that to your wall and, unfortunately, even if it might be a great choice compared to the other options. There are some problems that affect nearly every product in this category. If this is the cockpit, then the vehicle you’re driving is the forever alone mobile. Why? Why are you laughing? What’S funny, that’s funny, you’re, just mad that I’m more ergonomic than you well, you can purchase additional joints to allow monitors to tilt and swivel. Even with these adjustments, I mean it’s not that easy for someone to sit with you and collaborate on a project unless that is you and your colleagues have a special kind of relationship? No, no.
Thank you thanks. Linus. Another problem is space, while the footprint isn’t actually that much bigger than a standard desk and chair. When you account, for you, know, pushing out the chair to get away. It is far less flexible.
So if you had, for example, a computer, but also a side desk, where you could work with your hands or a shelf on the other side, an office chair can be easily swiveled from one workspace to another or kick to the side. When you don’t need it. While the Levis would make moving around in your space extremely difficult, it’s also difficult to move, and I mean that in two ways one bad, the other worse moving the Levis workstation is pretty much a non-starter. It is much wider than a standard doorway, meaning that even with two people, it would be easily a multi-hour Endeavor to pack it up and move it to another office or to another room and the other way.
I meant that is that moving yourself in and out of the Levis workstation, even just to go to the bathroom is such a chore that it disincentivizes the only real solution to your ergonomic problems. Moving around it is so easy to just lie. Still on your little computer Cloud that yeah your muscles might not hurt now, but eventually they will, when they atrophy, not that I think that will actually happen as cool as I myself thought. This idea was back in 2016 when I built the world’s most comfortable gaming setup, the novelty of using a computer or gaming, while reclined wore off pretty quickly for me and my family, and we ended up not recreating that at our new house. So I strongly suspect that, like your treadmill, your lettuce will spend more of its life as a laundry drying rack than an actual desk like with any miracle cure.
Then the Levis, zero gravity workstation only works. If you put the work into it, it is not a substitute for exercise rest and a healthy diet, but with this tool in your ergonomic tool kit, I could see a path towards better comfort and happiness for many, a desk worker just try to get your boss To pay for it right, speaking of which now I hated this thing when I first got it, but after a week working in it, can I call dibs not like I’ve called dibs on this message from our sponsor pulseway, when your network devices require attention, wouldn’t it Be nice to have control while you’re out running errands, instead of having to sit there in front of a computer? Well, pulseway offers a convenient solution to these sorts of dilemmas. Their all-in-one platform allows you to monitor all your servers, computers and network devices from any mobile phone or tablet. So you can respond quickly, no matter where you are, whether that’s running scripts checking CPU temperatures pushing through updates or even running Diagnostics on that pesky printer that never cooperates.
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