Concept · 3D design study
STOWORK is a cabin-legal case that unfolds into a three-monitor workstation — real keyboard, broadcast mic, 4K camera at eye level, even your own Mac — in under two minutes.
Why it exists
At your desk you have three screens, a real keyboard, a proper mic and a camera at eye level. On the road you have a laptop. STOWORK is not a better laptop — it is a deployable office that brings all six things with you.
One 14″ panel instead of the three you left at your desk.
Shallow laptop keys, wrists bent at the table edge.
You look down into a laptop lens instead of straight into it.
A tinny built-in capsule on every call that matters.
Left behind, or tangled at the bottom of a bag.
No room, no surface, no muscle memory.
A portable monitor adds a screen.
A laptop stand adds height.
STOWORK adds the office.
The deploy
Lay it flat, open the lid, and the rest is mostly gas-strut assisted: the lift raises the screens, the wings fan out, the boom rises, the keyboard slides forward. The whole sequence fits a 110-second budget. Drag the slider, tap a step, or press play.
Keyboard forward, trackpad flat, power on. Under two minutes.
Drag the model sideways to turn it.
How it fits
Three 14″ screens side by side are 93 cm wide; the case is 55. Everything below exists to close that gap — and to put the screens, camera and keys where your body expects them.
01 · The triptych fold
The center panel is fixed. Two wing panels hinge on vertical axes and fold flat, face to face, over it for travel — a stack about 31 × 19.5 × 2.4 cm. Deployed, each wing swings out ~35° into a curved, immersive array.
02 · The lift
The screens travel lying flat. A rear four-bar linkage, gas-strut assisted, raises them ~12 cm and rotates them flat-to-vertical, putting the center of the screen near seated eye level on a standard 74 cm desk. A straight telescoping mast could only do half of that.
03 · Pro AV
A cardioid condenser mic rides a telescoping boom on the display bridge and angles toward your mouth. A 4K camera sits with it at eye level. Over-ear studio headphones stow in a molded cradle in the lid on pogo-pin charging; stereo speakers live in the front edge of the base.
04 · Input
A low-profile mechanical TKL keyboard (36 cm) and a 16 × 11 cm glass haptic trackpad sit inline: 52 cm, inside a 53 cm interior. The keyboard rides a tray that slides ~6 cm toward you for wrist comfort.
Two ways to drive it
STOWORK Dock
Bring your own brain.
One USB4 / Thunderbolt cable from the laptop or phone you already carry drives all three displays, the AV and power.
STOWORK Core
Bring your own Mac.
Drop your own Mac mini, Mac Studio or mini-PC into the compute bay and the case becomes a complete desktop that travels with your real machine.
No bundled computer. Add 0.67 kg for a Mac mini or 2.7 kg for a Mac Studio.
The compute bay
The left third of the base is a standardized 200 × 200 × 100 mm bay with a fixed blind-mate connector block. Your machine rides in a device-specific 3D-printed cradle that drops in on a quarter-turn latch and routes its ports to that block. The case side never changes.
Your next computer is a reprint, not a new case — a cradle the plan prices at $15–35, pre-fit or printed from an open STL family.
Specifications
Built to be built
The plan behind this page is written for three readers — a design engineer, a contract manufacturer and an investor. Every cost and market figure in it is a labelled, concept-stage estimate.
Carry-on envelope, nested triptych, raise-and-rotate lift, eye-level AV and a bounded deploy — and, separately, the printed-cradle compute bay.
Why it’s hard to copy → ManufactureIndicative bill of materials, supplier categories, tooling estimate, and a looks-like → works-like → DVT/PVT prototyping path.
See the BOM → InvestConsultants, creators, field engineers and nomads. A $6.5M seed to carry the concept through EVT, DVT and PVT to a funded pre-order launch.
See the ask →