ThinkPad For his innovative design management leadership during ThinkPad development, Hardy was named "innovator of the Year 1992" by PC Magazine. Since 1992, the ThinkPad design has been regularly updated, developed and refined over the years by Sapper and the respective teams at IBM and later Lenovo, which included Yamazaki, Tom Takahashi, Sam Lucente and, since 1995, David Hill, Vice President of User Experience & Design, who leads and manages the design/user experience of ThinkPad. Hill's approach to maintaining the evolution of Sapper's original ThinkPad design is analogous to how Porsche manages evolution of the classic 911. The fold-out butterfly keyboard,
Lenovo Skylight Lenovo Skylight Lenovo Skylight was a small portable computer with mobile data capabilities (sometimes called a smartbook) designed by Lenovo. The project was announced in January 2010, but was cancelled less than six months later. Qualcomm was rumored to announce a smartbook at an analyst meeting on November 12, 2009. A Lenovo device concept was shown, and reported that it would be announced officially at the Consumer Electronics Show of January 2010. The Lenovo device was expected to be sold through AT&T carrier in the US. A Lenovo device was submitted to the FCC earlier in October, rumored to be