"Han Feng has a kind of all-around success in design that others don't, and that makes her one of the most influential people out there, " says friend and fashion icon Yue-Sai Kan of Shanghai.

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Cerf, after all, helped to design the Internet to be robust above all else, finding its way around physical and digital hurdles to reliably deliver data.

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This design tackles current environmental issues, specifically at abandoned oil rig structures all around the world.

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Other than that, this has fundamentally the same design as the other Yoga laptops, which is to say its screen can fold all the way around into tablet mode (with in-between options, like Tent and Stand modes).

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We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.

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