Many of these problems are solved by using your tablet with as healthy a posture as possible, and a great way of assuring good posture with a tablet is to use a stand that makes you properly sit up straight and at a healthy distance from the screen. A tablet stand should improve this, eliminating discomfort and the risk of injury due to tablet usage. Rather than use the tablet’s virtual keyboard all the time, if you are using it for long periods of time, consider adding a wireless keyboard and mouse, and placing the keyboard straight in front of you when typing, leaving a gap of about 10 to 15cm (4-6in) at the front to rest your wrists when not typing.

It’s quite stiff, but that’s what you want for stability and the ability to take the weight of the tablet at any angle. And, with home fitness workouts becoming more popular, a stand will help your tablet or phone bring your virtual personal trainer down to the level of your yoga mat. This stand doesn’t raise the tablet very high off the desk, but you could adjust for that by putting it on top of a box or book, although that’s not ideal as it will reduce its stability.Where once every respectable middle-class home needed a kitchen stand to hold open brightly coloured cookery books, today we need a stand to prop up our tablets; a plinth that proffers our pads at convenient heights and angles. The tablet mount works with Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablets, It is easily adjustable with knobs and a 2. Most work with phones, too—although an even more useful option there is to use an angled phone stand – such as the Belkin Boost Up Stand—that wirelessly charges your phone at the same time. Consisting of a metal plate with a guard, and a plastic base, the device locks together when you take it out of the box, and sits upright. The Aketo stand will adjust to just about any screen angle, but doesn’t add any more height than a few centimetres.

Even though several tablet variants and sizes can be mounted in a universal tablet holder, maximum sizes and weights need to be accounted for. It attaches to your desk, bedside table, or kitchen counter with an easy-to-use screw-clamp, and then you slot your tablet into the adjustable spring-loaded cradle. Below our tablet-stand product recommendations, we’ve listed our top tips for using a tablet with a stand, explaining why these factors are most important for your comfort and health. We’re increasingly treating tablets as a one-box-solution to our home computing needs - and that’s where the tablet stand comes into play.With that leg upright, it works well for more passive, hands-free viewing purposes, but—unlike some of the flimsier stands reviewed here—the Compass Pro remains stable when controlling by the tablet’s touchscreen. We’ve gathered the best tablet stands we can find, tested them for posture, flexibility, stability and looks. The VFA with Universal Tablet Holder allows an iPad or Tablet to be simply and securely clipped in place. And it’s not just the weight of your head pulling on the neck, or the odd positions you find yourself using the tablet in. This portable and flexible tablet holder can attach to almost any 3D surface, so when you’re singing, DJing or laid in bed watching a movie, this versatile stand can lend a helping hand!

Apple released the first iPad in 2010, and now, just nine years later, handheld smartscreen tablets are everywhere: they’re our browsers on the sofa, our cookbooks in the kitchen, and our entertainment system in the TV room.

If scrolling gives you pain, try using a stylus pen to navigate your touchscreen, or a wireless mouse. The same goes for phones, which might fit well in your pocket, but don’t have any natural support without a stand to place them in.