Belkin CushTop Notebook platform Steel, Burnt orange

Having bought a new Dell laptop nearly six months ago, I felt I also needed something to rest it on when I'm online and want to sit on the sofa or one of the armchairs and this cush-top looked ideal. It's made by Belkin, a reputable brand, and a household name in electronics accessories. It's fairly rigid and reminds me of the memory foam that's used in mattresses now. My one is grey on the outside although the inside (strangely called the pocket) which is where you thread through any cables, is a lime green, and not burnt orange as in the description given here. My laptop is 17 inches ... more

My boyfriend has recently purchased one of these Belkin CushTops and up until then, I had never heard of them as this is not the one I regularly use. However, this is actually a really nice idea from Belkin and instead of being for cooling purposes, it is more for comfort and it comes in two different colour ranges. It comes in a chocolate and tourmaline colour or a steel and burnt orange which is the one that he has. It is a novelty idea and if you like to move your laptop around rather than sit a desk ie. sit on your bed with a laptop on your legs without the heat from it burning your legs ... more

My boyfriend bought me this rather mysterious looking object for my birthday, knowing how much time I spend cosied up in bed on Facebook and Ciao - he was worried I was going to overheat the laptop and set the bed alight one of these days! The Belkin CushTop is, according to the packaging, "uniquely designed for comfortable laptop use on the couch, bed or floor". It is a sort of asymmetrical traezium shape made from what feels like that tightly-packed polystyrene stuff that is used as packing for electrical items and the like, slightly padded and covered in a hard-wearing fabric. It is taller ... more