Every question, answered.

Both. The wide base and the fin grip don't need a hard surface to work, though it holds steadiest on hard, flat surfaces where the footprint isn't fighting give in the cloth. Either way, a bumped can doesn't get a free run toward the keyboard — it resists tipping and settles back.

Set it beside the sweep, not inside it, the same way you'd place anything else on the mat. Once it's off to the side, a full-arm swipe doesn't touch it, and if an elbow does clip it mid-clutch, it settles back level instead of going over.

Check the bottom, not the cap. A base of 2 to 3 inches across fits — the 40 oz Stanley does, and so does a GFuel-style shaker. Handled coffee mugs don't: the handle lands where a fin needs to grip.

No — it doesn't attach to either one. No clamp jaw hunting for the right edge thickness, no clip competing with the 4D armrest for room to pivot. It just sits on the desk, the mat, or wherever there's space, and moves in a second.

It resists tipping — a nudge from a paw settles it back level instead of sending the can onto the keyboard. It isn't a sealed lid, so for a cat determined to get a taste, pair it with a lidded bottle or a shaker with the flip cap actually closed.

Honest answer: it resists tipping and settles a bumped drink back level — it isn't a sealed cup, so the risk doesn't disappear, it drops by a lot. On the nights the good board is out, pairing it with a lidded shaker or bottle stacks both layers.

That's the actual design brief. The base flexes with a knock and brings the drink back level instead of tipping it over — an elbow mid-sweep is exactly the motion it's built to shrug off. It resists tipping, not physics, so a full swing straight through it is still a full swing.

Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to take apart — unlike the keyboard after a bad night.

It's the Steadi — molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs, veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.

A clamp only grips a narrow band of desktop thickness — most run from about half an inch to two inches, a few stretch to roughly 2.1 — so thick tops, support beams, and bunk-bed desks don't fit the jaw at all, and it's common enough that some buyers drill a screw through the clamp flap just to keep one seated. This doesn't touch the desk's edge at all — it sits flat on the mat, the bare strip, or wherever there's room, so there's no edge thickness to measure first, and nothing hanging off the desk over the floor the chair rolls through.

A clip-on mounts to the one part of the chair built to move — a 4D armrest raises, slides, and pivots on its own, and wobble is a documented complaint on gaming-chair forums before anything is even clipped to it. This doesn't attach to the armrest or to anything sharing space with a forearm; it sits on the desk or the mat instead, so a chair swivel or an armrest pivot doesn't carry the drink along with it.

Built-in holders exist almost only on recliner-format console chairs — the racing-style chairs most battlestations are actually built around don't ship with one at all. Brand-matched mounts have the same lock-in problem from the other direction: a magnetic holder needs a steel desktop, an armrest-compatible mount needs one specific chair's armrest profile, and a different chair or desk sends you back to the same short list. This sits on whatever desk or chair is already there — no new chair, no matching hardware required.

It's one piece of molded flexible material with nothing mechanical to fatigue the way a clamp's spring tension loosens as paint chips or an edge warps. There's no seal or suction to dry out either, so an elbow mid-clutch gets the same grip on session one thousand as it does on session one.

No — the fins hold the container by its bottom inch through grip, not suction, so condensation doesn't break a seal the way it would on a suction-bottom holder. A cold tallboy straight from the fridge and a room-temperature water bottle get the same hold.

One base holds one container. Because nothing clamps to a single desk edge or one armrest, there's no shared mounting point to compete for — set a second one down anywhere there's room on the mat or the bare strip, no extra hardware and no second edge to find.

No — the 8.4 oz Red Bull's base measures about 2.08 inches, just inside the 2-inch floor, so it seats rather than rattling around. The 16 oz format most of the scene actually drinks — Monster, Bang, the 16 oz Red Bull — runs a wider 2.6 inches and fits with more room to spare.

Yes. A sit-stand frame can travel a foot or more between sitting and standing, jolting the desktop at the start and stop of every transition, and a cable pulled taut mid-travel can catch anything standing in its path. The wide base rides that motion instead of tipping with it, and settles the drink back level once the desk stops moving.

It's a small, simple answer to a problem almost every setup has and nothing at the desk is built to solve — no batteries, no software, no clamp to size to someone else's specific desk or chair. It ships free, molded in Orange, California, with 30 days for them to run it through their own sessions before deciding.