Last year, accessory LUXA2 released the H1-Touch stand for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which allowed you to position your handset on your desk like a miniature monitor. It looked great, but wasn’t particularly useful.
I don’t think the same can be said for the LUXA2 H4, a larger version of the same stand for the iPad. The reason for that is mostly because it allows you to easily position the iPad as a monitor when paired with a Bluetooth keyboard… and unlike the official Apple dock, the H4 has a swiveling mount that allows you to easily rotate your iPad from landscape to portrait orientation and back again.
The H4’s got a few strikes against it — those holding prongs, while keeping the iPad secure, don’t look very good — but all in all, it looks like a great solution for anyone who does a lot of typing or video watching on their iPad. $50 will get you one.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
