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, ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Bill Moggridge, inventor and designer of the first laptop, died on Sept. 8, 2012. He was killed by cancer at the age of 69, according to an announcement by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National ...

How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...

The industrial designer crafted the Grid Compass, a clamshell computer that debuted in 1982 and that is widely regarded as the first laptop computer. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? Listening to its creators doesn’t work: Tech companies have an annoying tendency to promote everything as a brilliant ...

It's a custom keyboard, an artfully dinged-up case, and a wonderful throwback. I wanted a GRiD Compass so bad back in the day. It looked so badass with its plasma screen and black magnesium case, and ...