--- title: The Japanese Dozing Desk Lets You Work Without Leaving Your Bed description: The Japanese invention of the Dozing Desk helps you use your computer while still in bed, enabling the ultimate laziness. canonical: https://time.com/3065513/this-dozing-desk-means-you-never-have-to-get-out-of-bed/ author: Kyle Chayka article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-31T17:45:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:05.135Z og:title: This Dozing Desk Means You Never Have to Get Out of Bed og:description: Lazy? Me? og:url: https://time.com/3065513/this-dozing-desk-means-you-never-have-to-get-out-of-bed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2321bb5ada4bc4/69869dfecd804dd496ccc2f1/desk.jpg?branch=production&width=636&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 636 og:image:height: 358 og:image:alt: desk og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Dozing Desk Means You Never Have to Get Out of Bed twitter:description: Lazy? Me? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2321bb5ada4bc4/69869dfecd804dd496ccc2f1/desk.jpg?branch=production&width=636&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Dozing Desk Means Never Getting Out of Bed Again by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 31, 2014 5:45 PM UTC  Hanko by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 31, 2014 5:45 PM UTC Some incredible—or incredibly useless—inventions have come out of Japan, like the [ramen face shield](http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr%5Flcmi1gfx0d1qzfsnio1%5F400.jpg). But this “Super Upward-Looking Dozing Desk,” discovered by [Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/theres-no-reason-to-ever-get-out-of-bed-ever-1613159545), is something every lazy technology user would love to own. The contraption brings us one step closer to becoming the pod people from _Wall-E_. The [Dozing Desk](http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/9088137/) forms a kind of armature over your prone body in bed. It holds a laptop precariously above your face with the help of elastic ties (hopefully secure enough to keep it from falling on you, which it looks poised to do). Your eyes now have a straight line to the screen even while laying down, and your keyboard is perfectly aligned to your hands. The only problem might be a lack of circulation to your arms, but you don’t type that much anyway, do you? The desk apparatus looks funny, but there’s a burgeoning line of products for those who don’t want to do their computing while sitting—which, after all, kills you slowly. The [Zero Gravity Desk](http://www.ergoquest.com/) kind of looks like a dentist’s chair, with its various arms and levers. But it’s designed to keep your body perfectly balanced and unstressed while working, and who wouldn’t want that? These devices are the closest thing we have to becoming floating brains in tanks, controlling our digital lives through the power of our thoughts. Before we achieve that singularity, there’s always the bed-desk. Or at least these [prism-spectacles](http://www.amazon.com/Skywill-Far-East-Industries-Spectacles/dp/B0006ZZCJI) that let you read while laying down. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3065513/this-dozing-desk-means-you-never-have-to-get-out-of-bed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3065513/this-dozing-desk-means-you-never-have-to-get-out-of-bed/"},"headline":"This Dozing Desk Means Never Getting Out of Bed Again","datePublished":"2014-07-31T17:45:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:05.135Z","description":"Lazy? 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