This strange wooden hand belongs to the Asus collection
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Ikea’s new gamer collection is not devoid of whimsical elements. A wooden hand for 17 euros should hold the modern gamer’s headset. Who likes it …
When a furniture giant and a provider of gaming hardware team up, then one can expect a lot from the product they have devised – one would think.
Nice, right? (Photo: Ikea)
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Headset Stand from Hell
Those who expected particularly little should be happy about the strange wooden hand that even Michel from Lönneberga would have had more stylishly carved. The fingers of the hand are made in the style of a jointed doll and can be opened and closed. This is how the wooden hand can develop grip.
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The product of the Lanespelare series, which Ikea and the Uppspel series developed together with Asus, as a stand for the indispensable gaming headphones. However, Ikea also agrees if you use the product for cables or other accessories that can benefit from storage in an angular wooden hand.
Off-label use possible
Lets go on we can do it better. (Photo: Ikea)
With a price of less than 17 euros (China: 129 yuan), the unadorned piece of glued wood is at least not expensive. In the Chinese Ikea store the tidy hand can be delivered immediately. With a little imagination, one could bend the upright extremity into all sorts of political and other symbols. Then she might have earned a place on the parcel shelf of an activist vehicle.
Almost everything seems better than having to imagine this block of wood as part of an esports cockpit – unless the gamer also uses the KFC gaming console with a chicken warming function. The design doesn’t match, but it becomes a consistently bizarre ensemble.
From October 2021, the new products should also be available in Ikea’s European markets. What a joy …
