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I recently saw a project on Kickstarter called boomba bean it's a flexible phone stand for Android and iPhone and here's the thing though first of all I'm worried that this stand will eventually damage your phone's charging port since it puts all that pressure on it and second of all it's 40 bucks so I put my engineering cap on and I came up with my own version that's less than $10 and I call it ya Bovina so without further ado let's get started here's what you'll need you'll need a gooseneck lamp you can find one another thrift store you'll need a set of pliers you'll need some contact cement scissors a suction cup medium sized and some sticky belts okay the first thing we need to do is disassemble this lamp so turn it upside down and come most lamps you should be able to peel this part dock and expose the wiring so now what we need to do is pinch these wire connectors and all we're doing right now is opening them up so they can be removed you should be able to slide them right off and once you're done with that untie the power cord and it should pull it right out and now we'll put the belt back on and work on the top we need to remove the head so obviously let's take out the bowl but save that for something else and here's what you need to do there will usually be a nut holding the neck of the lamp and the head together so with your pliers hang on to that nut and play it with one hand and twist with the other the head of the lamp should screw right off soon as its unscrewed you can just pull the head out and remove the nut you want to keep that Annette will need it in a minute comes to wiring and attached to that is a nut and a washer we don't need the washer will keep the nut and now we're ready to assemble level V now so take that nut and screw it on so that it's just flush with that part right there so make sure your suction cup is clean grab your contact cement or any heavy-duty adhesive would work here and what you'll need to do a little muscle is brush on a thin layer of this adhesive right here and a thin layer on to the suction cup okay the way this stuff works is that you need to let it sit for about 15 minutes until it's glossy and then after it's set for a bit you put the two together and they'll instantly it here so I'll be back in about 15 minutes all right we're back and it looks like these two are ready to get together so I'll do is take the suction cup and adherence and you shouldn't really have to hold it here it should bond immediately if you waited long enough okay they've bonded and the last thing I want to do to clean this up a bit is wrap some filter on the neck so I got this sticker felt it has a sticky side so I'll just cut out a strip long enough to cover those parts get a little arts and craftsy here alright so I just and that's right here and now it looks pro see how good does that look alright our stand is ready to go but now we have to put it to the test so I'll grab a couple phones I've got an iPhone and an s3 and I want to show you just how awesome the stand is alright stick it on did it here's perfectly to the suction cup and check it out it's not going anywhere so I can put this next to my computer screen and have all of my screens aligned you can use this thing for FaceTime Skype taking self-portraits it really comes in handy and for less than 10 bucks it's definitely worth it now if you want to kick it up a notch and make it more like the une boo bean that also charges your phone you can find a gooseneck lamp that has a wide enough neck so that you can drop that USB cord down the neck and also charge your phone while it's on the stand all right I want to see what you do with this DIY project so tweet me your photos on Twitter and send your suggestions to always on at cnet.com you