This overarticulated mech claw? It’s an iPhone stand, meant to grip your fragile handset with T-800-style menace. And it costs only slightly less than the original T-800 hand, locked somewhere in a vault deep within the belly of Cyberdyne Systems.
Called the Rokform Rokstand, the stand is machined from aluminum with an anodized finish and features six angles of adjustment boasting “precision high speed bearing and cam adjustment.”
Of course, a 50 cent business card holder will prop up your iPhone equally well, so these are just marketing phrases to distract you from the price of $169. Of course, now that you’ve heard that price, with your eyes just dangling from your sockets like that and the taste of vomit in your mouth… how much more distracted could you be?
The Rokstand comes in pink and chocolate brown too, if that makes things better.
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.
10 responses to “The Rokform Rokstand For iPhone Is Overarticulated and Overly Expensive”
Ha, I made the same thing about 5 years ago out of legos. It cost about $30. http://ericsagalyn.com/2010/10…
Nuts!
This what you get when an engineer is allowed to develop a product without oversight and prices it with no regard for market pricing. At any price over $45 they might sell 20 of them in 2011.
The real “RokStand” … http://www.RokStand.com … and it’s reasonably priced at only $16.99
Very nice, but it is needlessly complex. You just can’t beat official Apple designs.