Laptop inventor Bill Moggridge dies

Danny Palmer
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Industrial designer who first attached a folding screen to a keyboard has lost his battle with cancer

Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with inventing the modern laptop, has died from cancer at the age of 69. In 1979 Moggridge designed the Grid Compass, the first computer ...

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