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Non-slip iPod/phone stand

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 1Stuff you need

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.
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20 comments
Jun 18, 2009. 9:09 AMtrikeks says:
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.
Jun 18, 2009. 12:06 PMultrauber says:
waste of an awesome mp3 player
Jun 18, 2009. 5:49 PMtrikeks says:
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 =)
Aug 25, 2009. 9:52 AMultrauber says:
it's still better than an ipod
Aug 28, 2009. 6:56 AMFieldownage says:
Would you care to explain to us why Creative Zen is better than iPod? Have you ever even seen one? :)
Aug 28, 2009. 6:54 AMFieldownage says:
Great! Thanks to gravity once again. You could use spray-glue to attach the non-slip material to the bookend.
Jul 16, 2009. 12:26 PM=SMART= says:
nice idea, i will try
Jun 18, 2009. 6:24 PMrazhang says:
i think your phone is awesome.
Jun 18, 2009. 10:00 AMRocketfueler says:
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.
Jun 18, 2009. 8:05 AMdigitalsniper says:
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.
Jun 18, 2009. 7:35 AMmizzoufan96 says:
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
Jun 17, 2009. 4:40 PMGage987 says:
how'd you do that to your phone
Jun 17, 2009. 6:26 PMJ@50n says:
same way he did it to his ipod i bet :P
Jun 17, 2009. 7:23 AMjyck says:
Do you mean "non-slip mat"?
Jun 17, 2009. 9:05 AMjaycomic says:
Great instructable and way better stand then all of those k'nex ones
Jun 16, 2009. 12:36 PMdavidjlarsen says:
This is great. I think I'm going to try to make a slightly different version for my Aspire One 10.1". Thanks!
Jun 16, 2009. 12:25 PMtoddkravos says:
Ingenious! Thanks for sharing!
Jun 16, 2009. 11:43 AMrobots199 says:
Nice job. Congrats on being featured on lifehacker. 5/5 stars Also... First comment!

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