Nerdytec Couchmaster Cycon 2 review: A gaming command center for your couch

I sport with a controller once I’m on my sofa, and a keyboard and mouse once I’m gaming at my desk. I undoubtedly want the latter to the previous, although, and normally, I do it sitting on the sting of my sofa hunched over the keyboard and mouse on my espresso desk. It is not very best, but it surely works. The three-piece Couchmaster Cycon 2 from Nerdytec is a greater choice, and whereas it is massive and considerably costly, it provides you room to sit down again, unfold out and comfortably sport for hours.

The $179 Cycon 2 (£146, AU$239) is sort of a big lap desk, but it surely sits on high of two foam cushions coated in a easy microfiber. The desk piece measures 2.7 toes (82 cm) lengthy and 13 inches (33 cm) deep. It is simply sufficient to provide you room to mouse with a full-size keyboard. Nevertheless, I like to recommend going with a TKL-size keyboard or smaller, as a result of it felt just a little clumsy with a bigger keyboard. 

Sitting down between the cushions and getting strapped in, so to talk, is a bit awkward, too. Nerdytec does embody some Velcro strips you may connect to your keyboard or a controller to maintain them in place whilst you get into place and on the entrance of the fitting cushion there is a pocket to your mouse. As soon as the desk is in place although you may simply sit again and calm down, and the microfiber is sufficient to hold it from sliding round.  

The desk has six USB 3.0 ports: two on high and 4 inside. Merely pop off the magnetically hooked up panels on the underside of the desk and join your keyboard and mouse to the inner USB ports. There are cable pass-throughs on the highest and sides, and cable-management posts inside to maintain your cords from getting snarled. 

A single, specifically designed cable connects the Couchmaster to your PC (or console) and an included optionally available energy provide. The additional energy enables you to cost your cellphone or different units with one of many two top-mounted USB ports. 

The left cushion has a few pockets on the surface so you may hold your cellphone or TV distant helpful or stash different equipment. Nerdytec also sells phone and tablet mounts for the desk, an ashtray and a mousepad that runs the complete size of the desk. There is no headset mount or hook, although, which looks as if a miss.

The reminiscence foam cushions provide you with a cushty place to relaxation your arms whereas your gaming. And once I wasn’t utilizing them, my youngsters clubbed one another with them, which brings me to my final level. All three items are massive, so if the Cycon 2 is not going to dwell in your sofa or you do not have a devoted gaming house (I do not), you may want some house to retailer them out of the best way. 

Whereas the Couchmaster Cycon 2 may not be a necessity, the design and options all add as much as an incredible gaming expertise for anybody who’d somewhat go into battle with a keyboard and mouse than a controller, or who desires a cushty strategy to swap between the 2. Bonus: The Cycon 2 can be used as a laptop computer desk to your sofa once you’re not gaming.