Patent ID: 8746156

Claim:
Support apparatus, comprising: a substantially planar base element; a substantially planar upper element; a support element coupled to the base element and said upper element; where said base element and said upper element can be coupled to said support element in a plurality of different configurations so that said support apparatus is optimized for respective ones of a plurality of use applications; where said base element is configured to receive the support element in a substantially central portion of the base element so that said support element can be received between two legs of a human being, and said base element will simultaneously engage bottoms of the legs so as to stabilize the support apparatus; where said plurality of different configurations comprise (i) a first discrete rigid configuration where an area of the upper element is substantially aligned with an area of the base element; and (ii) a second discrete rigid configuration where the area of the upper element is at least partly offset from the area of the base element; and where the upper element is further configured to connect to the base element and the support element in a substantially compact manner for storage.