RitzGear Pop-Up Laptop Sun Shade | Portable Compact Anti-Glare Screen Hood, Tent & Carry Case for Up-to 17” Laptops or Monitor | Light Reflective Shield & Waterproof Privacy Cover for Working Outside

The media could not be loaded. This is kind of like those old-timey photographers from the 1800's who would hide under a blanket-like thing attached to their camera on a tri-pod... but this is self-standing and isn't attached to a tri-pod or anything else.It does have a velcro-attachable hood, though, to provide even more shielding and appear even more to be one of those old-timey photographers!It's quite a unique apparatus, and will likely be quite useful hiding from the sun while using a laptop outside on the porch or in the back yard in full sunlight. (I'm not sure I'd recommend it for out in public or people might think me a bit odd... hiding under a bushel while I use my laptop!?)All in all, though... Should be quite useful for what it's designed to do. It's even got little holes in the bottom for running a mouse or power cable out, etc., or for easy access to CD/DVD, SDISK or ports on the sides of the computer.Pretty Cool!

Might fit 16” wide laptop, but not more comfortably. Could use slit at back for cables. Like that it folds up and is lightweight. You’ll have fun trying to fold it back up on the first couple of tries until you get the hang of it. Folding instructions not much help. Overall, very pleased with quality and reduction of outside light.

A wire runs along the base, which give the base structure. Sadly, this wire is bent, so your laptop will rock back and forth (from front to back) as you type on it. And I mean a lot of rocking, not a little. So this item is completely useless and unusable.

Very light. Good materials. No sun leaks from the material.The photo I took was on a glass table but I did it to show that the light from above was completely blocked but I was surrounded by light.Opens up easily. Closing it back up was a bit more of challenge. It was frustrustraing (for me) at first, try it few times at home before you take it out. The video they show here needs to start a bit earlier as to what to do and the included directions did not really help.I am not using this not so much for a laptop but portable ham radio. There's enough room for most radios, a cw key, notebook and your cell phone or a tablet in the back. A notebook computer that folds like a tablet could be used in the back of the screen and put the rest in front of it. Unless its real small computer the keyboard gets a bit in the way. The side holes allow for easy running of coax connectors.This packs up rather nice and gets rid of problems seeing the screens. For around 40-50 bucks it does help with activations that you will know will be in the sun. Its better than dragging a screen tent or suffering with glare.

Comes as a compact disk, that pops up into the shade box. It BARELY fits my 17" laptop. The sides bulge out a little bit. This would be best for a 15" laptop or smaller.It does NOT have a place for the cord to come out the back, but there are slits in the side for a mouse to stick out.There is also an extra tarp piece you can add to it and then it's like a whole tent. This defeats the purpose of trying to be outside in my opinion, and if there is wind this thing won't be very practical anyway.The shade dome itself does work, it shades the screen enough I can see it but you have to have your face in there to avoid sun glare in your eyes, then the top of the tent thing hits you in the forehead.I had been using a cardboard box for the purpose this serves, and in some ways the box is better (don't bang my head on it, large enough for my laptop with room to spare, but this is better for making a darker space for the laptop, this folds down smaller and tighter, this is lighter weight.I will keep using it I think, there are some good aspects to it, but maybe try a box before trying this to see if that works, and if it's still not dark enough... then get this.

I have seen these over the years and figured they would not work and would just look pretty stupid. But I do use my laptop a lot while camping and really need help with outdoor glare, so I took a chance on this. It works surprisingly well for its purpose. At first I did not think it was quite wide enough for my 15” Lenovo, but it does fit. Then I was bugged by the curvature of the shade because it kept my keyboard elevated about 1-2” off the table and made typing bumpy. Figured out I just needed to slide everything further into the cavity of the shade and the keyboard then lay flat normally. That also further improved the glare reduction. It has a long nice mesh storage pocket on the inside on both sides of the laptop for glasses, mouse, pens, etc. Has a vent opening on left side for cords. I set it up on the back deck in the noon sun (summer). Pretty sure I will get good use out of this while camping! Don’t leave it set up without the laptop in it as a breeze could easily blow it away. As the sun moves, you can just change the angle of your seating and shift the shade to continue blocking stray light. Has a couple of downsides. During hot weather, there is no way I could use the optional extension that goes over the head! It would be like sitting under a dryer in a plastic bonnet in a salon! Suffocating. Cool weather might be fine. You can pull the top part of the extension forward to get a few extra inches of glare protection without having it enclose you. The extension has Velcro on both sides and across the top. Like most items designed this way (circular fold up shades for windshields, etc.), the refolding instructions seem rather useless. I just had to keep trying different ways of compressing it until I was able to stretch the tucking mesh back around it. The instructions say to start with the “back facing you” but the pictures do not look like that, and pulling from the back does not allow the unit to flex. Once I have refolded it a few times though, I think it will become 2nd nature. Overall, the unit is a clever design and useful. (Patio photo is to show only scale of unit set up. Laptop screen blurred out to protect privacy.)