Lap Power

Last updated

Lap Power were a Swedish publicly listed company that was started in 1991 [1] [2] that during the 1990s sold (mainly portable) personal computers and computer accessories. A lot of attention and controversy came from provocative advertising featuring Helen Wellton posing scantily clad to sell their computers. [3] [4] [5] [6] The company was owned by Mr and Mrs Helen Wellton (b.1961) and Claes Wellton Persson. [2] Lap Power's new owners plunged the company into bankruptcy in 2000.

Contents

JämO against Helen Wellton

Company ads where Helen Wellton occurred frequently on the picture together with the company's products attracted the Equality Ombudsman's (JämO) attention. The ads were reported twice by the Ombudsman to the Industry and Commerce Ethics against sexist advertising (ERK). The first time she was freed. The second time, she was convicted of her smile, which ERK considered "signaling sexual overtures".

History

The corner stones for Lap Power were done in mid-1990s but it wasn't until 1991 that it started for real. The first big order came from the Swedish Armed Forces. That ordered a number of camouflage painted "towable" computers. It could best be described as a stationary machine that had been assembled together with a foldable screen. These clumsy models became little of a specialty for the company in the beginning and the possibilities were soon realised. [2]

My thought was that in the feature all one would need was a small portable computer and no stationary. I was the first in the world to market a package that consisted of a portable computer, a big monitor, big keyboard and a mouse for office workplaces, says Claes Persson (the former CEO). [2]

Persson also says he was the first with a docking strip that fit portable computers. In the docking strip, screen, keyboard and mouse were always connected. Too bad I didn't patented this. [2]

Further reading

Related Research Articles

Tommy Körberg

Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role as Anatoly/"The Russian" in the musical Chess. He played the role on the 1984 concept album, and on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London, as well as several times since.

Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women)

Djurgårdens IF is a football club from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The team play their home games on Stockholm Olympic Stadium The team colours are white and blue. The club is affiliated to the Stockholms Fotbollförbund.

National Defence Radio Establishment Swedish signals intelligence agency

The National Defence Radio Establishment is a Swedish government agency organised under the Ministry of Defence. The two main tasks of FRA are signals intelligence (SIGINT), and support to government authorities and state-owned companies regarding computer security.

Axel Gustaf Torbjörn Enström

Axel Gustaf Torbjörn Enström was the head of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget in Sundsvall. He was managing director from 1950 to 1960 and chairman of the board from 1960 to 1965.

Papa Dee

David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren, better known by the stage name Papa Dee, is a Swedish rapper. His most commercially successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut Is the Deepest".

Åsa Linderborg

Åsa Natacha Linderborg is a Swedish writer, columnist and historian. She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editor.

LGBT rights in Sweden Rights of LGBT people in Sweden

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Sweden are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and in the world. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1944 and the age of consent was equalized to that of heterosexual activity in 1972. Sweden also became the first country in the world to allow transgender persons to change their legal gender post-sex reassignment surgery in 1972 whilst transvestism was declassified as an illness. Legislation allowing legal gender changes without hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery was passed in 2013.

Swedish Coastal Artillery

The Swedish Coastal Artillery has its origin in the Archipelago Artillery that was raised in 1866. The Coastal Artillery was formed from the Archipelago Artillery, the Marine Regiment and parts of the Artillery in 1902. Kustartilleriet, abbreviated KA, was an independent branch within the Swedish Navy until July 1, 2000, when the Swedish Coastal Artillery was disbanded and reorganised as the Swedish Amphibious Corps. The changed name and new structure were to reflect the new tasks that the old Coastal Artillery had moved to after the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Warsaw Pact.

Carl David af Wirsén

Carl David af Wirsén was a Swedish poet, literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary 1884–1912.

Claes Eriksson

Claes Ingvar Eriksson is a Swedish director, screenwriter, revue artist, comedian, actor and composer. He is best known as a member of the comedy group Galenskaparna och After Shave, where he also is the group's main director, screenwriter and composer for their productions. Anders Eriksson, who is also a member of the group, is Claes Eriksson's younger brother.

Compuverde AB is an information technology company with a focus on computer data storage and cloud computing.

The history of Internet in Sweden can be considered to have begun in 1984, when the first Swedish network was connected to the Internet in Gothenburg. In the past, however, were data links between some colleges and universities with access via modem and UUCP to the European part of the Internet.

Somalis in Sweden are citizens and residents of Sweden who are of Somali ancestry or are Somali citizens. A large proportion of these emigrated after the civil war in Somalia, with most arriving in Sweden after the year 2006.

Kristian Gidlund

Kristian Olof Erik Gidlund was a Swedish musician and author. He played drums in the rock band Sugarplum Fairy. He hosted Sommar i P1 on Swedish radio and released one book. In 2011 Gidlund was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and died from the disease in 2013 four days short of his 30th birthday.

Sonny Johansson is a former Swedish football player, who between 1968 and 1984 represented Landskrona BoIS. He played in Allsvenskan during ten seasons, 1971 until 1980. Even though he never won the top scorer competition in any single year during the 1970s, he scored more goals than any other Allsvenskan player during the entire decade. Other achievements for his club included the promotion to Allsvenskan in 1970, winning the Swedish Cup final 1972 and two Allsvenskan bronze medals for the 1975 and 1976 seasons. He also played 3 caps for the Swedish national team, and scored one goal. There were voices that suggested that he would have represented Sweden at many more occasions if it was not for the Swedish national manager of the time, Georg "Åby" Ericson. The supporters of Landskrona BoIS gave him the nickname "Kung Sune, vår vän". In English "King Sune, our friend". Sonny Johansson played 638 games for the club and scored 310 goals.

Chief of Navy (Sweden)

Chief of Navy is the most senior appointment in the Swedish Navy. The position Chief of Navy was introduced in 1936 and the current form in 2014.

FACIT EDB

FACIT EDB was a vacuum tube based computer that was manufactured by Åtvidabergs Industrier AB after the designs for BESK, that had been developed by the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery (Matematikmaskinnämnden).

<i>Quicksand</i> (TV series)

Quicksand is a Swedish crime drama streaming television series, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Malin Persson Giolito. The first season, consisting of six episodes, was released on 5 April 2019 on Netflix and is its first Swedish-language series. The series stars Hanna Ardéhn, Felix Sandman, William Spetz, Ella Rappich, David Dencik, Reuben Sallmander, Maria Sundbom, Rebecka Hemse, Arvid Sand, Helena af Sandeberg and Anna Björk.

The following is a timeline of minor events between January and mid-March in the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.

References

  1. ↑ Resterna av ett börsbolag [The remains of a public company] Dagens Industri 2000-06-29
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lap Powers uppgång och fall [Lap Powers rise and fall] (in Swedish), 2013-11-17, archived from the original on 7 April 2016, retrieved 27 March 2016, Grundstenarna för Lap Power lades i mitten av 1990, men det var inte förrän 1991 man satte igång på allvar.
  3. ↑ Historiens sexigaste kvinnor | Blast from the past [History's sexiest women | Blast from the past] (in Swedish) (published 2015-03-27), 2015-09-19 (HTML 41 kB)
  4. ↑ Roger Krook (2011-08-03), Amanda Jenssen som Generation Y [Amanda Jenssen as Generation Y] (in Swedish), Detta utnyttjade hon sedan mycket skickligt genom att provocera och posera lättklädd med företagets datorer, något som gav enorm publicitet och uppmärksamhet under flera år.
  5. ↑ Betalar ditt företag dubbla priset för era bärbara datorer [Does your company pay the double price for your laptops] (in Swedish), 2009-08-23
  6. ↑ 34 IT.Branschen 24 January 2002 Nummer 1 (in Swedish) (published 2013-05-18), 2002, archived from the original on 9 April 2016, retrieved 27 March 2016
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.