Bed Laptop Setup
This page is part of my Assistive Tech Gear collection.
As years pass, all the time I spend sitting has begun to catch up with me. Despite sophisticated seating technology, I experience a fair amount of leg pain. As such I decided I needed to take more breaks out of my wheelchair, which means lying in bed. But I still want to be able to use my computer when I’m lying down, so I came up with a way to use my laptop.
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What’s happening here is that I’m lying down with the head of the bed slightly elevated. My laptop is precariously positioned on a bookstand on a hospital table, pointing down.
You can’t tell from the picture but I have a mousepad on my chest and I’m using a small wireless mouse. For typing, I either use the macOS Accessibility Keyboard (an onscreen keyboard) or Talon, which allows me to use speech recognition.
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This setup makes it possible for me to work from bed when needed, or be able to Netflix[1] and chill.
Or HBO or Disney or Hulu or Prime or Peacock or… aaahhhhhhh ↩︎