The Lift — Gas Spring Monitor Arm

Your monitor stand is occupying 400cm² of desk space, holding your screen at exactly one height, with cables hanging off the back of it like a wiring harness.

The Lift removes all three problems in under 10 minutes.

A gas spring monitor arm that clamps to any desk edge, holds any display up to 32 inches and 8kg, and lets you reposition your screen — height, tilt, swivel, depth — with one hand and no tools. The gas spring cylinder holds the position exactly where you leave it, with zero drift over time. The cables from your monitor route through the hollow column and exit cleanly at the desk clamp. From the front, your monitor appears to float. From the back, there is nothing to look at.

What the floating monitor actually does

Moving your monitor off its stand returns 400cm² of desk surface. Setting the arm at eye level — which most people have never done on a fixed stand — eliminates the 15-degree neck downward flex that builds into neck pain across a full workday. The Lift gives you the correct ergonomic position at any sitting or standing height, adjustable in under 3 seconds with no tools.

• Load capacity: 2kg–8kg — covers every monitor from 17" to 32"
• Gas spring range: 430mm vertical travel — full sitting-to-standing height adjustment
• Rotation: 360° swivel, ±45° tilt, ±90° pivot — portrait or landscape in one motion
• Cable management: Hollow column routes all cables internally — HDMI, DisplayPort, USB all disappear into the arm
• Clamp: Desk clamp fits surfaces 10–80mm thick — no drilling, installs in under 10 minutes
• VESA: 75×75mm and 100×100mm compatible — fits every monitor sold in the last decade
• Colour: Aluminium Silver

Ergotron LX costs $149.99 and is the market benchmark for gas spring arms. The Lift uses the same gas spring mechanism, the same hollow cable column, and the same VESA compatibility — for $95.99. The difference is $54 and a logo.