More than 70 years after its birth, the popularity of mid-century modern design and architecture shows no signs of abating. This overview by Penny Sparke kicks off our series about the movement.

At last year’s CES, ASUS had a great showing off of products, from the Eee PC Keyboard to the EeeTop PC (which I loved) to some of the sweetest notebooks around. The thing that became evident, though, ...