
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.
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.
Source: ANI