Lenovo shows a few quirky laptop prototypes

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Journalists love a good tech prototype. These exciting experiments break up the monotony of covering the same incremental refreshments from day to year. They are also associated with one disadvantage: As attention as they are, there is no guarantee that they actually actually come onto the market.

Therefore, covering can be a little difficult because it can be difficult to decide how much attention a product will pay that consumers may never actually see. Fortunately, Lenovo actually made one of his earlier promises on the CES this year and a Rollable laptop That should start at some point in 2025. Now the company has three additional concepts it shows for the Congress of the Mobile World, all of them probably as cool.

A foldable shoot on the rollable screen of this CES

First, there is the ThinkBook Flip Ai PC, which you can see as a cheaper setting to this rolling laptop from CES. Instead of letting part of the screen hidden in the laptop and developing like a scroll, the screen of this laptop folds over the upper half of the device and extends over both sides of the lid. With your hands you can develop it to get a particularly high vertical display, or mirror the front of your screen for presentations on the back. Or you can use the laptop in a kind of tablet mode while it is closed. It resembles existing devices like the Yoga book 9iSure, but in contrast to these, the screen is continuous and the keyboard is built into the device.

This approach has chair and disadvantages. Since no roll mechanism has to be accommodated, the flip AI -PC can actually be a little larger than a rollable laptop, but at the same time it is also a little more heavier, so that you cannot use the fully extended screen without additional support in a steep angle.

Snap-on-laptop monitors

Also in the area of the extended laptop displays are the Magic Bay Dual Display and the 2nd Display Laptop accessories. Technically speaking that Is not the first time Lenovo showed concepts for Magic Bay, the existing technology with which certain accessories on the back of some ThinkBook laptops can snap on Pogo pencils. These have even contained secondary displays before, but this year’s ideas are definitely a little more involved.

Magic Bay’s 2nd display is an 8-inch vertical screen on which a laptop is supplemented with a (non-touch) tablet-like companion. It resembles the 10-inch horizontal panel, which is located above its laptop screen, which Lenovo has shown on last year’s CES, and accidentally remembers my husband’s own desktop setup. As practical as it seems -it is even on a hinge for an adaptable angle -it is nevertheless overshadowed by Lenovo’s other Magic Bay Display concept.

The Magic Bay Dual display transforms your laptop into a three-monitorial workstation with additional 13.3-inch screens on both sides of your device with a refresher rate of 120 Hz over both. It is quite difficult at £ 2.6, so it comes with a built -in kick. This is not the first time I saw An idea like thisBut when I saw it personally, I was impressed how much more intuitive the connection process appears compared to current alternatives from third -party providers.

A solar -powered laptop

Outside the area of the screens, there is also an experimental solar -powered laptop that can load the sunlight, called Yoga Solar PC. It works through a solar cell that is built into the back of the laptop of the laptop. According to Lenovo, according to Lenovo, “over 24% solar energy conversion rate” can be charged to play an hour of videos within about 20 minutes after direct sunlight. I couldn’t see it in action because I was in a dark room while Lenovo showed it, but I can say that solar technology is not too great how it affects the form factor. It was much thin that looked at my mere eye, and the company says that it is 0.6 inches thin and £ 2.69. If this is still too big for her, Lenovo has also shown the solar power kit for yoga concept, a standard battery bank that connects a removable USB-C solar panel (I have not seen it personally).

Developments of previous concepts

While I was able to personally see the concepts mentioned above, the company also has some iterative changes in previous ideas and showed that it prototypes its own version of competing devices. This includes a glass-free 3D Thinkbook, similar to devices that Asus And Acer You already have on the market and a AI-driven robot companion named Tiko, who would add to laptops via Magic Bay.

For more functions there is also a Tiko Pro in the works, a small horizontal Magic Bay display that combines the advantages of the 2nd display with AI-powered widgets. Here, too, we saw versions of these of competitors or in previous announcements from Lenovo concept, but it is still worth keeping an eye on the eye.

A bit more exciting is the hybrid dimensional 24-inch monitor that allegedly displayed 3D images and at the same time 2D assets without resolution, although this has to be seen with your own eye to really be assessed, and I don’t have a practical time with it yet.

Bring AI to non-AI PCs

After all, there are tools that Ki can be used to bring to non-AI PCs. Lenovo says that it is experimenting with two dedicated neuronal processing units or NPUs, which can either connect via a USB stick or a monitor with existing PCs. The Lenovo AI -Stick works like an external graphics card and contains a 32tops NPU that can be connected to a computer via Thunderbolt via Thunderbolt so that they can carry out LLM and AI graphics locally locally. It can only work through your own performance of the laptop, but Lenovo says that you can also connect it to a wall to increase performance.

In the meantime, the AI display with NPU inside is similarly the same, but instead of adding the NPU in a lifting-like structure, it builds directly into its monitor. This is the additional advantage so that the screen can physically rotate, increase and tilt your movements, but like most monitors, it is much more bulky and must be connected to a wall at any time. Lenovo also says that it is working on a “AI ring” that would provide gesture control in spatial computing apps, although the company also did not go to many details.

And that was it on Lenovo’s MWC concepts. It is a pretty wide array. Here, too, none of them are guaranteed to come onto the market, but that means that they become a little crazier than the typical product termination. Personally, I would like to get Magic Bay’s duplicate advertisement and I could see how the AI stick is useful for developers. In the meantime, the company also announced a number of chip upgrades for its existing ThinkPad, ThinkBook, IdeaPad and Yoga laptops, which will be launched this month with the new Yoga 7 2-in-1 and IdeaPad Slim 3x.