Non-slip iPod/phone stand

A fairly inoffensive-looking stand for your gadgets from less than $5 of materials. Yes, my phone looks weird. But it is seated gracefully and stoutly on the finest of space-age materials. Read on.

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Step 1: Stuff you need

As you can see, the stand is very simple, and is made of just two items.

Purchase the following:

Metal bookend

These are found at homeware and dollar stores.

Non-slip mat

These are usually at automotive stores, although mine came from a Japanese store.

trikeks says: Jun 18, 2009. 9:09 AM

Hey, thanks! Gives me a good idea for making a stand for my Creative Zen, which I intend to convert it into a photo viewer.

ultrauber in reply to trikeksJun 18, 2009. 12:06 PM

waste of an awesome mp3 player

trikeks in reply to ultrauberJun 18, 2009. 5:49 PM

It's the 2nd generation, big and bulky. Not so convenient to bring around as compared to the newer version, which are lighter and slimmer. Anyway, better than collecting dust on the shelf or be forever hidden in the drawers. Play good music while viewing photos =)

ultrauber in reply to trikeksAug 25, 2009. 9:52 AM

it's still better than an ipod

Fieldownage in reply to ultrauberAug 28, 2009. 6:56 AM

Would you care to explain to us why Creative Zen is better than iPod? Have you ever even seen one? :)

Fieldownage says: Aug 28, 2009. 6:54 AM

Great! Thanks to gravity once again. You could use spray-glue to attach the non-slip material to the bookend.

=SMART= says: Jul 16, 2009. 12:26 PM

nice idea, i will try

razhang says: Jun 18, 2009. 6:24 PM

i think your phone is awesome.

Rocketfueler says: Jun 18, 2009. 10:00 AM

Clever engineering, and entertaining presentation. Thank you. I might just make me a couple of those. I have the necessary parts laying around in various places around here. Now the hard job -- I gotta find 'em.

digitalsniper says: Jun 18, 2009. 8:05 AM

Thats Perfect. I had been using a business card holder. lol. Ill be making me two of these today. One for work, one for home.

mizzoufan96 says: Jun 18, 2009. 7:35 AM

This is totaly sweet i made one for my phone and itouch but i used this sticky pad i got with my phone Great work i luv it :D

Gage987 says: Jun 17, 2009. 4:40 PM

how'd you do that to your phone

llongbourne (author) in reply to Gage987Jun 17, 2009. 6:53 PM

The P900 has a keypad which flips open. It's removable, and after the top of the keypad put those cracks in the case halfway up the screen, I removed it. This poor phone has been drowned, dropped, broken, scratched, insulted, reassembled, and taunted, yet it struggles on. It is the Russian tank of smartphones.