Yes, you can move those pieces. It's LEGO!

This is a table stand, not a lap stand. You could put it on a lap desk, but you'd need to put something with more grip on the places the iPad touches as well as the bottom of the legs b/c it will slide around.

Originally Posted by Purpleorchid

Cylindrical hollow rods like tiny toilet paper rolls...they allow you to pivot/rotate the pieces. I'm sure there's a real title for them, but I have no idea what they're called.

They are called pegs and fall under the connectors category. The "long pieces with holes" are called beams.

This portable stand is really amazing. (Keep in mind that it is a portable stand.) I have built it and it's gonna be useful once my iPad arrives. Actually, I did two minor changes to the construction:
1) I changed the black pegs at the ends of the red beams to those with knobs. Looks smoother, but I'm not completely sure it's gonna work.
2) See the smallest yellow parts in the Japanese example? I added two of those, again to make it look a bit smoother, but also to move the "legs" a little bit more apart from eachother.

I constructed a stand on my own right after seeing this one. It is not intended to be portable. However, as I'm gonna use the iPad as a digital photo frame, my stand has a built-in gear function allowing you to adjust the iPad's angle by twisting a small rubber tire. Images coming soon.

EDIT:
I have my iPad now. The portable stand works, but I made a few adjustments. Using pegs with knobs works.

love it!

haha...that's actually pretty good..i will definitely try this one out

Originally Posted by neocaster

That's awesome! Now if you were really cool, you could post a parts list to save me the trouble of watching the video 20 more times.

Indeed!

???? @dburk - if you look at the whole thread, I did include the parts list right after neocaster asked for it (the post you quoted).

that's huge...never thought about it, great idea..i love it

Another good one for the Book of Legos

That looks undersized and not all that supportive,I would not put my $800 ipad on it,will stick with my apple dock and stand from my contour isee case.

Legos are for kids silly rabbit....

Actually, it works very well.