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WOLFBlogger Review: Rocketfish PadPivot Go Anywhere Stand

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This year, we’re starting a new series of posts at The Bella Buzz. We’ll still be podcasting every week, but I will start doing technology product reviews aimed at our business audience. This will be a series in which I test the latest and greatest inventions aimed to save business owners time and money.

I’m honored to be a review blogger in the BestBuy WOLFBlogger Network. This week I’ll adds two reviews. The first is the Rocketfish™ – PadPivot Go Anywhere Stand.

When the stand was delivered by Best Buy in the mail a couple weeks ago, I really wanted to love it. I was given a free PadPivot for review through the WOLFBlogger program.

At first, I really did love it. It was a cool way to set your iPad on a counter or even your knee and use it while sitting at the perfect angle. It pivots a full 360 degrees and the pad that holds your tablet won’t let your tablet go anywhere. It’s stuck there once you attach it which is good. You have less of a chance of it dropping to the floor. Always a good thing for us clumsy folk. It made reading my knitting patterns easier while holding my knitting needles. I didn’t have to continuously adjust it like I do when it slips off my chair or legs. There is even a leg tether to keep it straight, but I did get some strange looks when I forgot it was attached and got up from the table.

My 80 year old father saw it and fell in love with the concept just as I had. So much so, he stole it from me for a week and used it himself.  The problem was, after that initial week, he stopped using it because he forgot he had it. Plus it was a pain to keep taking off the stand when he left the house and then reattaching it again. So it sat on the table unused. The fact is, I didn’t even miss it the entire week he had it. Another bad sign. To me that is death for a product.The PadPivot is still sitting on the coffee table unused for over a week. I might pick it up again with my next knitting project or when I am doing company research, if I remember. I might be a good gadget for bed-ridden people or those in a hospital. At home or in the office, I’m not so sure it’s very useful. I’ll definitely give it another go and try to rekindle our romance, but I have a feeling it might just end up in a drawer full of other “great idea” gadgets that really weren’t useful in the end.

You can find the product on the BestBuy site here. I was provided the PadPivot at no charge through the WOLFBlogger program for review and testing.

 

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