Bill Moggridge, creator of the first laptop computer has died
aged 69 after losing a battle with cancer. Moggridge is best
known as the creator of the GRiD Compass, the device with a
keyboard and yellow-on-black display. Priced at more than 8,000
dollars it was encased in magnesium and considered to be rugged
with a 340kb memory, the Telegraph reports. The device released
in 1982, was used by the U.S. military and even made its way
into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.
Muggridge was also the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-
Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York since 2010. The
museum said that Moggridge had died on Saturday.