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There arent many pieces of technological design that simply cant be improved upon, but the clamshell-style laptop computer caseintroduced by Grid Systems in 1982may be one of them.

Thats why the vast majority of the portable computers built ever since have used it. But for more than a quarter-century now, inventors have been trying to top it, with folding screens, screens on stalks, folding keyboards, two-screen clamshells, tri-fold clamshells, and more.

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The number of missing people in the state of Alaska is twice the national average. Why do so many get lost?

Amid the untouched beauty of Alaska's varying landscape, a mystery lingers. Because people seem to go missing at an eerily high rate, a large section of the state has come to be called Alaska's Bermuda Triangle. Planes go down, hikers go missing and Alaskan residents and tourists seem to vanish into the largely untouched backdrop.