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ASUS keeps giving the PC a new shape
From a $399 netbook to a laptop with two screens, ASUS has made a business of moving the computer off its usual perch. Its next challenge is making ambitious hardware easier to own.
HYPERVSN Put a Screen on a Bicycle. Then It Made the Screen Disappear.
The London company turned a rejected bicycle-wheel ad into spinning LED displays used by Nike, Coca-Cola and the Sphere. Its real product is not a hologram so much as a carefully engineered interruption.
Fractal Design Bet Gamers Would Grow Up. Nine Million Products Later, the PC Case Looks Like Furniture.
The Swedish hardware company built a global business by noticing that gamers age, apartments have furniture, and a powerful PC does not need to look like an alien aquarium. Its next test is whether that taste can travel from cases to the whole gaming station.
The Taiwanese Underdog That Turned Cheap Into a Six-Way Global PC Fight
Acer spent decades as the value pick in a market ruled by giants. Now it is the world's sixth-largest PC vendor, betting on gaming, recycled plastic, and AI to stay in the fight.
The Houston Warehouse That Sells You a Computer Twice
For 35 years, a family-run distributor on Bissonnet Street has made money on both ends of a computer's life - selling the hardware, then hauling it back to shred, wipe, and resell. Here's how the loop actually works.
The Budget Gaming Brand Betting Its Whole Pitch on 0.2 Milliseconds
A4Tech has sold computer mice since 1987. Its Bloody line skips the metal contacts inside a switch and fires on a beam of light instead - then sells the result to gamers who won't pay Razer money.
The Company That Owns the Pen
Wacom's battery-free pen quietly became the default input device for professional digital art - and the invisible layer inside other companies' screens. Here is how a Japanese firm turned one idea about a stylus into a category it still dominates.
Framework Builds the One Laptop You Are Not Supposed to Throw Away
A San Francisco hardware company bet that people would rather turn a screw than buy a new machine. Five years, a 16-inch gaming laptop and a desktop later, the bet is still paying out.
Western Digital
The 55-year-old hard-drive maker bet its whole future on the spinning platter - right as the AI boom made cheap, bottomless storage the most valuable thing in the data center.
ClearCube Technology
ClearCube Technology is a USA-based manufacturer of secure endpoint devices, centralized computing systems and desktop virtualization (VDI) solutions. Founded in 1997 and based in the Austin, Texas area, ClearCube designs, builds, tests and supports zero clients, thin clients, blade PCs, rackmount workstations and secure KVM switches used across thousands of federal, military, healthcare and enterprise sites. The company is known for TAA-compliant, US-manufactured hardware including TEMPEST-certified and SIPRNet-token-integrated devices built for high-security, critical-operations environments.
Daylight Computer Co.
Daylight Computer Co. is a San Francisco public benefit corporation building computers that don't fight your biology. Its first device, the DC-1 tablet, has a 60fps monochrome 'Live Paper' display, an amber backlight free of blue light and flicker, and runs Android apps. Founded by Anjan Katta in 2018, Daylight sold out its first 5,000-unit production run after a May 2024 launch and has become a touchstone for the 'healthier tech' movement.