1994. He produced the industrial design concepts and models of the first "Broad Band phone" for AT&T. Dickinson Associates created the industrial design, mechanical design, and production engineering design for the first GSM mobile phone "reference phone" design, for Rockwell. Dickinson Associates were also the designers of the Gizmondo handheld console (originally the Gametrac). In 2014, he published concept designs for modern Sinclair microcomputers. The following year, Dickinson published a series of images of the ZX Spectrum Next re-imagining the original Spectrum design. In 2016, he designed a wireless patch for a medical system to allow expectant mothers to monitor fetal heart rates. He also worked on the design of the ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld games console. The first ZX Spectrum Next was delivered in February 2020. Personal life and death Dickinson had two daughters, Grace and Daisy, with his first wife Kim. He is survived by them and by his second wife Elizabeth ("Lizzy"). Dickinson died on 24 April 2018 while in Texas receiving further treatment for cancer first diagnosed in 2015. See also List of English inventors and designers References External links Rick Dickinson interview: The Enigma of Design Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Rick Dickinson interview: Designer Update Part 1 and Part 2 Planet Sinclair – Rick Dickinson Sinclair User magazine, Modest award winner sets the pace in micro design, August 1982 Patents: ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum The Brits Who Designed the Modern World Artsnight – Series 4: 7, BBC Two 1950s births 2018 deaths British industrial designers British inventors Sinclair Research Deaths from cancer in Texas Alumni of Northumbria University Product designers Year of birth uncertain