Standing Tables Overview

Over the past 4-5 years, the theme of tables for sitting-standing work out of the ordinary has become commonplace. I decided to make an extensive overview of different kinds of tables there are for sitting-standing, how they differ and, if possible, how much money they cost.
In the process of searching, the idea came to somehow systematize the results obtained, which turned out to be:

"Extensions", which are simply placed on a regular table.

Mostly this is a kind of "box-bench", which is simply placed on a regular table and is used as an additional surface.

In view of the simplicity of the design options for such extensions are many, all of them do not make sense, some users go on a simple and budget path and use for this purpose empty boxes or a combination of a board + a pair of boxes.

However, among this, at times, far from being budgetary, the monotony of the superstructures is a pair of designs that deduce extensions to the next evolutionary level.

Tables that are equipped with mechanisms for changing the height of the tabletop for alternating sitting-standing positions.

These are also called standing desk converters (read more at smarthomedesk.com).

As it turned out, there are a decent number of height adjustment mechanisms. I managed to find the following types:

• The most untwisted and accordingly popular line is the standing tables with the electric drive.

• Another group of tables - with pneumatic height adjustment (on a gas lift). They differ from electric ones by the lack of the need for constant power supply, they are regulated by means of lockable gas springs (gas lifts), which are quite unpretentious in handling, but, like any mobile mechanism, have their own nuances.
  

• Separately it is necessary to distinguish tables with a clever counter-load mechanism, to understand the principle of work until the end and it did not work out, but it seems there is also a "hidden spring".

• Another exotic type is the adjustment with the help of the handle through the gears, the balm well the soul for all the lovers of retro cars, at the moment of nostalgia, you can twist the "generator knob" without leaving the workplace.

• Another unusual design of the table with the manual adjustment is a two-section table top with one lifting section.
  Most popular standing desk brands are Varidesk an Uplift Desk.