Your eyes do not deceive you — that’s an ordinary-looking ThinkPad laptop, being used in zero-G! (We bet the astronauts are glad they got the classic ThinkPads with the old-school keyboards.) It’s just one of many examples of consumer tech used in extreme settings.
Here’s another piece I wrote for ITworld as part of my swan song there. Ever wondered about the high-tech computers they use in space? They’re pretty much the same ones we use on earth, it turns out.