Laptop desginer dies

Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died in New York. He was 69.

Mr Moggridge is credited with the design of the Grid Compass, a computer that had a keyboard and yellow-on-black display. It was used by the US military and made its way into outer space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1985.