With a supportive pillow, laptops can make lazing in bed while browsing pretty tempting. What makes it even more tempting? A swing-out, wall-mounted Mac.


If you've ever laid in bed and thought, "Man, I wish I had a computer floating right above my head," this setup is for you. Lifehacker reader Nathan was given a pile of dead G3 iBooks by a previous employer to tinker with. He took a box of four iBooks home in a semi-disassembled state and forgot about them.


When he found himself unemployed a few months later, he decided to use some of his newly found free time to mess around with the heap of iBook parts he had. He managed to pull parts from all the iBooks and get it up and running but found that the laptop was extremely picky about being moved thanks to infamous G3 iBook GPU problem. Nathan ended up fixing it with fire—quite literally—which helped but didn't completely resolve the issue. Rather than continue to attempt repairing the quirky issue, he decided instead to make the laptop a stationary fixture, negating the need to further fix it.

He built a cabinet for the laptop and attached it to a sliding track allowing him to mount it over his bed and slide it down into viewing position when he wanted to use it. Although it has a keyboard and a Gyration GO Pro wireless mouse he can use while laying down, he used it primarily for media playback. Our favorite thing about Nathan's build? He noted in his email that he built it just to take his mind off being unemployed and to create something tangible and interesting, only to turn around and use the computer to apply for—and land!—a new job. Excellent work on both counts, Nathan! For more pictures of his build, check out the photographs below.







If you have a workspace of your own to show off throw the pictures on your Flickr account and add it to the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool. Include some details about your setup and why it works for you, and you just might see it featured on the front page of Lifehacker.