CES is all about the little guy this year. At least, for us it is.
As easy as it is to spill a thousand words out over some new 300-inch
floating TV that no currently breathing mortal will be able to afford,
we aimed to route around the show’s bellowing giants and find the
self-made gems so often lost in their shadows.
Lazy-Hands is the epitome of one of these gems. Armed with little
more than velcro, a humble booth, and a dash of ingenuity, they managed
to catch our eye amongst thousands of competitors who were twice their
size and nth as loud.
The concept behind Lazy-Hands isn’t a complicated one: take a velcro
patch and stick it to your device, wrap a couple of velcro-friendly
loops around your fingers, and you’ve got an iPad (or iPhone, or Kindle,
or whatever else, really) that clings to your hand wherever you might
want to place it. It’s a simple product made of almost fundamental
materials, and yet it pulls off something quite neat.
Slapping a slab of velcro onto your $500 device obviously isn’t the
prettiest solution, but it gets the job done in a universal way — and
remember: this is a Mom N’ Pop operation. Let them ship a few thousand
of these things and pull in a bit of tinkering money, then watch for
what they come up with next.
The Lazy-Hands runs from $9.00 up to $18.00, depending on the size of
the device you’re installing it on and the number of fingerloops that
you’ll need to support its weight. You can find them all here.