I lament the aesthetics of this object even as I admire its utility. The Bobino Screen Shelf, designed by Kikkerland, lets you wring some storage area out of the otherwise dead space atop and behind your monitor:
Rubberized dots aside, I probably wouldn’t place a hot cup of coffee, or anything taller than it is wide up there, but this’d be a great place for me to drop that crucial notepad that always seems to get buried under papers on my desk.
If this thing wasn’t so darned unattractive, I’d buy one.