Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world

Three ambitious engineers from Finland are bidding to change personal computing with a new portable computer and operating system

Personal computers, says entrepreneur Kristoffer Lawson, haven't changed much in 20 years. It's still a box, a screen and, if you're using a desktop, a keyboard.

But Lawson thinks that the era of cloud computing deserves its own kind of computing device. Portable, but more powerful than a mobile, designed to be plugged into any desktop screen and with a new kind of operating system that connects more fluidly to your contacts. And at a launch in San Francisco on 15 October, that's what Lawson and the rest of the Solu team unveiled.