The days of limiting your workplace furnishings splurges to ergonomic chairs would possibly quickly be coming to an finish. A sheet of plywood spanning a pair of noticed horses is simply now not the optimum place to plop down for an extended day’s work. Desks are now being crammed full of useful tech, together with their very own working methods and 24-inch OLED screens packed filled with apps.

Bringing us one other step nearer to the inevitable future the place in all places we glance is full of screens, the Lumina Desk is a motorized standing workstation that includes a decent-sized 24-inch OLED embedded slightly below the desk’s floor. It’s utterly invisible when not in use, and never as intrusive as an extra monitor on high of the desk could also be.

At 24-inches in dimension, that OLED show is giant sufficient for use as a secondary show for a laptop computer or a PC, just like the 12.6-inch touchscreen on the Ficihp keyboard we featured yesterday. But the desk’s built-in show isn’t designed for that. The desk truly runs its personal working system known as Lumina OS, which powers a set of built-in apps permitting customers to show their Google Calendar, Twitter feeds, and even Slack conversations. The desk’s show is configured by an app appropriate with each Windows and macOS machines, and the corporate will present an SDK so customized apps might be created for it. However, in contrast to the Ficihp keyboard, it’s not a touchscreen, and simply passively shows information by these apps. The thought is that you simply’d most likely quite not have your espresso mugs and keyboards by chance clicking one thing.

The workstation is designed to accommodate your different tech as properly, with six powered USB-C sockets, six energy shops hidden inside a beneficiant storage compartment that can be utilized to maintain cables out of sight, and two wi-fi charging pads which might be additionally hidden and built-in into the floor of the desk. It will even incorporate health-minded options, with timers maintaining tabs on how lengthy you’ve been sitting or standing, reminders to take breaks on occasion, and the flexibility to schedule when the desk will transition from sitting to standing modes, which presumably might be rapidly over-ridden if you end up trapped in a video name when it begins to occur.

The solely remaining query concerning the Lumina desk is how a lot it’s going to value. Official pre-orders aren’t out there but, though events can join notifications by Lumina’s website because it strikes nearer to manufacturing. That kind of implies that, like that Herman Miller chair you splurged on to assist your again, the Lumina Desk goes to be a hefty funding. Even Ikea’s motorized standing desks are half a grand, so add a 24-inch OLED display into the combo and also you’ll most likely be paying extra for this desk than your smartphone or laptop computer.