Keep that laptop

IBM is patenting a delightfully simple way to stop people stealing laptops
(GB 2348459). It is usually impractical to keep a laptop secure at a conference
or meeting: sneak thieves can grab one during a coffee break, fold down the
screen lid and hide it inside a pile of papers. So IBM has designed a bar that
slides between the keyboard and screen, and stops the hinge working. When the
bar is locked in place with a small key, the screen cannot be folded down unless
you break the hinge—which wrecks the PC, making it useless to the sneak…