In 2020, in response to the global WFH trend, I made it my mission to design, patent and manufacture an innovative laptop shade to solve that universal problem: that laptops SUCK outside! Doing so would enable digital nomads, students, creatives, professionals, and anyone else to be able to work efficiently from anywhere.
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Working alone indoors for too long can zap your mood, motivation and productivity.
Allowing workers to switch-up their surroundings, working outside, in coffee shops, in co-working spaces, while traveling etc boosts employee satisfaction, happiness, and output!
Sunlight diminishes your screen visibility and overheats your device, shutting it down & killing long-term battery life.
Privacy and security are crucial to most businesses.
But laptops, ironically, expose your projects to the world!
SunShader is the original laptop ☀️ sun shade 🔥 heat shield and 👀 privacy screen that enables you, and your team, to literally work from anywhere!
Utilizing a powerful Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer, I iterated thousands of clip designs until I arrived at the perfect solution. The soft silicone clips gently attach to the very edge of your laptop screen bezel, so that no pixels are hidden, and flex to any laptop screen thickness.
I set about developing the design, which began as a clunky cardboard box cut-out. The main challenge was designing the interface to attach the shade to the laptop. Elastic, magnets, hooks or clips were the main options.
After Hundreds of iterations and thousands of 3D printed clips later, the product has evolved into a sleek ergonomic folding shade with nylon flexible rubberized clips, air-flow channels, heat-deflecting materials and easy port access.
In 2025, I introduced SunShader Eco — a recyclable cardboard, eco-friendly version of our popular SunShader Pro. Printed with eye-catching tropical prints, SunShader Eco was a runaway success selling out of the first 5000 units in just 17 days.
After a sell-out trade-show in Vegas, I added a new revenue stream: custom-branded SunShaders for B2B Enterprise clients. We even became a Halo Preferred Supplier and were recognized in the Top 10 Best of Show vendors in the PPAI Magazine. Following this success, I streamlined the concept with an interactive 3D design tool on our website to easily allow anyone to upload their own logos and order personalized SunShaders with ease.
