The GRiD Compass is a legendary portable computer — a taste of an early-80s future with bubble memory, tough enough for NASA ...

If I had to figure out what to do with the insides of a Framework 13 laptop I had lying around after today, I might not turn it into a strange but compelling “Slabtop” this time. No, I think that, ...

The device, now seen as a bulky relic of a bygone age, was used on the Space Shuttle, and its clamshell case was prized for its durability. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of ...

Bill Moggridge, who has died aged 69 of cancer, designed the world's first laptop, the Grid Compass. But it is not being first that makes you famous in the digital universe – it is being able to do ...

Today, every laptop pretty much looks like every other laptop. Sure you might run into a few different colors and screen sizes out there, but on the whole, all the manufacturers have pretty much ...

We've taken the clamshell design of the standard laptop computer for granted for a very long time, and it seems obvious now, but someone invented and patented it. That person was British designer ...

The legendary designer Bill Moggridge died this weekend and is being properly memorialized around the web. Among the many things Moggridge is known for, he built what seems to be the world's first ...

The Rasti Computer is a modern laptop designed to resemble a very old one. Inspired by the design of the GRiD Compass computer (circa 1982), this little laptop borrows the style of classic laptops, ...