Mobo Chair Mount Ergo Keyboard and Mouse Tray System - 2.5-Inch x 12.5-Inch x 7.5-Inch - Black

by Mobo

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 23 x 4 x 13 inches ; 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002YERS32
• Item model number: MECS-BLK-001
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #4 in Office Products > Office Supplies > Desk Accessories & Workspace Organizers > Platforms, Stands & Shelves > Keyboard Drawers & Platforms
  • #16 in Office Products > Office Furniture & Accessories > Furniture Accessories
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 25, 2009

Product Description

The Mobo is a revolutionary keyboard and mouse tray system that attaches directly to your existing office chair (arms) instead of to your desk. The Mobo’s unique, patent pending design naturally positions both desktop and laptop computer users in a comfortable and healthy neutral body position. By placing the keyboard tray and mouse pad directly on your chair, the Mobo eliminates awkward reaching and stretching for computer controls and provides unsurpassed comfort and mobility. The Mobo’s versatility, comfort and ergonomic benefits make it an ideal solution for virtually anyone who uses a computer—perfect for business use, home office workspaces, dorm rooms, computer gaming, data entry, casual web surfing and more. Maintaining a healthy body posture has never been easier. Maximize your comfort and protect your health with the Mobo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegantly Simple Solution - Add a Keyboard Tray to the Chair, March 21, 2010

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Lost Texan (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews

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The Mobo is an elegantly simple solution to a complex problem: using a keyboard with a desk that just won't take an adjustable keyboard tray. In my case, I have an antique rolltop desk with trim that I did not want to ruin by installing a keyboard tray and rails. This was the only product I could find that would do the job.

It was kind of a "duh" moment when I saw the pics and description: don't jerry-rig a keyboard tray to a desk not designed for one, just add the keyboard tray to the chair.

I have had my Mobo for a couple of weeks now and it works as advertised. It makes the keyboard comfortable to use and saves my rolltop desk. I can also sit my laptop directly on it if I don't use my separate keyboard. At the same time, I can still use the same chair with the mouse pads folded to work at our separate computer table.

This is apparently a new company with a new product. I would have felt better when checking the product out if I could have located a real address, phone number and better business bureau report. I hope the company sets those up soon. In the end, I took the gamble on legitimacy and it worked out okay. The product arrived quickly and installed quickly. I have recommended it to a couple of friends already.

Update (8-26-11): I realized this morning that I have had my Mobo for almost a year and a half and I still love it. I haven't had to do anything to it. It is comfortable for long periods. The keyboard tray doubles as a writing surface for those times when I have to work with a paper document (it happens). Mouse on one chair arm extension, cell phone on the other, keyboard in the middle and away I go. I wish I had thought of this one!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ergonomic product that works!, January 21, 2010

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AB (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mobo Chair Mount Ergo Keyboard and Mouse Tray System - 2.5-Inch x 12.5-Inch x 7.5-Inch - Black (Electronics)

The Mobo seems to be a very well made and sturdy product. I purchased it as a gift for my husband who works from our home computer for sometimes more than 12 hours a day. He has been complaining of right arm/shoulder pain for years. Since he's been using Mobo, he has found that he's much more comfortable and no longer feels the pain and stress he once felt.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding solution to my "mouse shoulder", January 6, 2011

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Robert M. Burkhead "robertb151" (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mobo Chair Mount Ergo Keyboard and Mouse Tray System - 2.5-Inch x 12.5-Inch x 7.5-Inch - Black (Electronics)

I have been suffering on and off from "mouse shoulder" for the past several years. Recently, it flared up again, and more seriously than in the past. I was looking for a new solution to positioning my mouse and keyboard more ergonomically so that I was not always leaning forward to and reaching out to the keyboard and the mouse. In the past I had tried lap-desks, desk-mounted pull-out keyboard/mouse trays (both the simple drawer type, and the more complicated articulating type), track balls, and forswearing technology altogether and taking up the stone, hammer and chisel again. :-)

It has only been a few days since I have installed my Mobo, and I can already tell that there is a marked difference between this solution and all the others I've tried before. Specifically with the mouse, my arm (and thus my shoulder) are well supported and in a neutral position. No more reaching out to the mouse and hanging my elbow out in space, making my shoulder, neck and back work overtime. The pain I was feeling while using the mouse is, well, gone. Instantly. Simple as that. No kidding. (I'm still recovering, and I still feel the pain when I do other activities that mimic the position my arm was in while using the mouse, but as far as solving the root problem, I think I'm there with the Mobo!)

The added benefit that I have noticed is that I am no longer reaching out to the keyboard as well, causing my shoulders to round over and my back to come off the chair's back rest. I am able to hold my back in, again, a neutral position, well supported by the chair like it is supposed to be.

A reviewer mentioned that he felt the product was "flimsy" and poorly constructed from inferior materials. I was a bit nervous buying the product based on this, but went ahead with the plan that if I unpacked it and found that to be the case, that I'd just return it right away. I absolutely do not find this the case at all. Yes, it is plastic. (What isn't these days?!) The material seems to be high-impact rigid plastic, however, which certainly does not feel flimsy at all. They keyboard tray does rest "out in space" between the two mouse trays on either side, and it might be a little thinner than I'd like (giving a bit more "bounce" while I type than I am used to), but flimsy? No.

Another reviewer mentioned that he found the keyboard tray to be a bit too slick, causing the keyboard to have a tendency to slip about a bit. I have found this to be accurate, and am going to go out to Michael's today to spend the $0.84 on the solution he implemented.

Finally, another reviewer mentioned that positioning the keyboard properly took space away from the mouse area. I do not find that to be the case in my instance, but I have a wide "executive" style chair, giving plenty of room for both proper keyboard positioning without encroaching on the mouse pad. I could see, however, where this might be a problem on narrower chairs.

I do find, however, that the keyboard is up higher than I am used to having it. Again, I think this is a function of the design of my chair, and not at all anything to do with the Mobo itself. It is not uncomfortably high, and in fact, I am noticing that my wrists are in a more natural position, so maybe this is a good thing.

In the end, 110% worth the money I spent on it. Had I spent the same amount and threw everything else away except for the chair-mounted mouse pad, I'd still call it well worth the cost, given how dramatically and instantly it solved my shoulder problem.