The recent boom of everything mini – iPods, mobile phones, cars and even living spaces – means we all now live a slightly more minimalist existence. But the one exception, for women at least, is the laptop. While they’re a lot smaller than they used to be, portable computers are still that little bit too chunky to slip into your purse. Yes, it’s true – men now have the manbag (ahem, that is, the satchel), which is perfectly sized for housing your laptop while ensuring that you still remain rakishly styled, but for women, it’s still a bit of a challenge. Enter the Ultra Mobile PC – an attractive little laptop that puts even the cutest mac books to shame and folds up lithely into a CD-case-sized square. While this clever computer won’t suit everyone (its 7” OLED screen makes designing layouts a little cumbersome), it supports most professional applications and has a built-in DVD drive for entertainment and gaming. Its design, a collaborative effort between Antenna Design and Fujitsu, recently won an IF Product Design Award and marks the beginning of an entirely new wave of laptop design. Now the only thing to do is find a purse that matches…
