Very nice. Add a USB hub in the top half of the box, and a half-terabyte of USB storage at the bottom, and you have the perfect laptop workstation. I wonder how easy it would be to make/buy the H-shaped aluminium piece to add your extra cooling under the hinge...

Great ideas! Thanks, Geoff!

I've been thinking of doing something like this, and I've worried that metal-to-metal contact between the laptop and the aluminum surface would scratch the case with stray grit, and possibly be slippery. Have you noticed anything?

Kevin,

I was worried about the metal-on-metal contact too, so this morning I put a strip of packing tape (which happens to be just about exactly two inches wide) along the aluminium arms. I think that'll protect the laptop case.

As far as slipping, no I haven't noticed any problems. The little rubber feet just outside the bars would prevent side-to-side motion. I occasionally move the laptop forwards or backwards to change the position of my arms or my viewing angle on the LCD, but I've never felt it move accidentally.

For those who aren't quite as handy with a router, I can recommend the lapinator, from lapinator.com.