Editorial Product Review:

Item Description:
This Podium CoolPad is a swivel stand for your laptop with adjustable risers to raise the front or back of your laptop. Designed for better ergonomics for you and improved heat dissipation for your laptop.

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Customer Rating: - Strange looking,but it works
This is a strange looking contraption, but it's very simple. There are 12 risers that snap on top of each other to create three levels of height. There is a bar that you can place on top of the risers and it's recommended for larger laptops, but even with my relatively compact 15" MacBook Pro, it provides better stability and also keeps the risers in place when I put the stand inside my bag. If you travel with it, I would recommend you place this stand in an inside pocket as the risers could get lost. The stand also swivels so you could, say, show a chart to a customer. Raising the laptop allows air to flow under it. It works for me because I was looking for something compact and less wide than my laptop so I can use it while sitting at my favorite chair, while also leaving room for my cat to snuggle next to me. Heat doesn't reach my legs anymore. The only drawback is that at the highest position, my laptop would occasionally slip off the stand. But since then, I've decided that the lowest height actually provides a better typing position for my hands.
So this gizmo works for me to keep heat from me as well as a stand for typing. My MBPro runs slightly cooler. If you need serious cooling this may not be for you. You might prefer the plug-in type of cooling stand.