However, the most impressive thing is the way Frenzel has managed to take something so simple and make it so functional, allowing the one piece stand to house an iPad in three discrete viewing angles — from upright to a much more lean-back angle — in both landscape and portrait mode, as well as enabling it to be used resting on soft surfaces, such as your lap or bed.
But with prices now surging past 1.40 euro a liter, about $8.21 a gallon, they are wondering how much more lean they can get and, in some instances, they are protesting loudly.
Historically, Tesla has taken a conservatively approach to manufacturing as the company was much more lean when the Roadster and Model S first hit the lines.
Can you be on the left and also believe that the state really does have to be much more lean and much more efficient?
Dot-com companies "are bringing in more senior managers who say that they need to tighten the belt and need to run much more lean," she said.
Arts organisations, museums and libraries – so much more lean these days and hardly the subsidy junkies some out-of-date commentators like to huff and puff about – were worth £5.9bn to the national economy in 2011 and generated a further £7.9bn in culture-related tourism.
You can't get to where we need to go with digital revenue and with what's happening to print without making a much more efficient, leaner cost structure than you had before.
Like the "skunk works" that firms such as IBM used to set up to house their misfits and braines, the independents have a much more creative culture than their parents.They are leaner, too.
But the last, which embraces everything from resisting temptation to attacking Islam's perceived enemies, is a much more contentious term.Nearly all Muslims, almost all the time, lean to the softer meaning.
And it is uber-lean, requiring far fewer people, a much more limited pool of resources and a markedly reduced amount of square footage.
It is because this lean and barbed low-budget drama is involved in a much more complex relationship with the 1970s "Paranoia Trilogy" of films by Alan Pakula and Gordon Willis.
