In true entrepreneurial fashion a 14 year-old in Orem, Utah has invented a solution that lets your laptop do double duty on long car trips by providing DVD entertainment for back seat passengers.

The CradleVue appears to be a sling that attaches to your front seats to suspend a laptop vertically where DVDs can be played. 

We’ll get one to test it out but from the information on CradleVue’s site it appears to be a great, low-cost way to make use of that laptop that you might be carrying on a road trip to check work email - especially on rental cars or vehicles where installing a custom rear DVD system is not feasible.

Aside from eliminating the need for a separate DVD player, ClearVue lets the rear seat passengers watch movies on a laptop screen - something that is (usually) larger in size and easier to see than many portable DVD player screens.

What has yet to be seen is how securely it holds the laptop and how it deals with different laptop shapes.  We’ll test it out and let you know.

Gizmodo has coverage of the product and the Deseret News does a nice job covering the inventor and his story.