Lenovo’s New Concept Laptop Has A Rotating Screen That’s Perfect For Doomscrolling

This is what going 90 looks for illustration connected a laptop.

Lenovo has made laptop screens that roll, flip, and go transparent, and now for IFA 2025 it’s announcing a caller conception pinch a surface that tin rotate into image mode. The Lenovo ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept is simply a beautiful standard-looking 14-inch productivity laptop, but if you nudge nan screen’s separator from its top-right corner, nan full show rotates 90 degrees wrong its chassis, realigning itself into a amended position for documents, coding, aliases doomscrolling.

That’s it. That’s its full trick. It’s some utterly delightful and a touch mundane — overmuch simpler than other, wilder Lenovo concepts. There isn’t immoderate fancy elastic OLED display aliases whirring motor built into nan chassis — conscionable a clever, pivoting way strategy hidden down its screen. It’s 1 of nan astir down-to-earth Lenovo concepts yet, which intends it’s sewage a bully chance of turning into a existent product.

I sewage to spot nan conception laptop successful personification during an early preview successful New York City up of its IFA debut successful Berlin. As pinch different Lenovo concepts, I recovered it charming, and nan institution reps had an anxious aerial of “Do you deliberation this is cool too?” 

And, well, it is beautiful cool. If you’re for illustration maine and you often plug your laptop into a large show and usage nan laptop surface arsenic a secondary display, being capable to usage it successful a vertical predisposition is beautiful nifty.

The surface was easy capable to rotate vertically pinch 1 hand. I felt obligated to beryllium gentle pinch it and clasp nan laptop platform down pinch my different manus to forestall nan full point toppling over, but it was sturdy capable that that wasn’t necessary. Once nan surface is turned, nan laptop lid has conscionable capable room connected either broadside to remainder a telephone beside it, nan amended for utilizing Lenovo’s Smart Connect app to transportation files and power your Android telephone pinch your rodent — though it wasn’t afloat moving successful my little demo.

There isn’t overmuch other to nan VertiFlex conception laptop itself. Lenovo isn’t talking afloat specs, but nan 1 I saw had 2 Thunderbolt (presumably Thunderbolt 4) ports, 1 USB-A port, HDMI, and a 3.5mm audio jack. The 14-inch conception laptop is not particularly bladed aliases peculiarly light, astatine 17.9mm / 0.7 inches heavy and 1.39kg / 3.06 pounds. It’s a small thinner and two-thirds of a lb lighter than nan rollable ThinkBook Plus, but still thicker and heavier than a accepted laptop for illustration nan ThinkPad X9.

I was excited past twelvemonth by nan ThinkBook Flip concept, which took nan elastic OLED from nan rollable and turned it into a somewhat simpler folding-screen setup. With a modular non-flexible sheet and less moving parts for illustration motors, nan VertiFlex is moreover simpler. I’m not rather arsenic stoked by a regular aged rotating surface arsenic I americium by ones that fold aliases flip, but it still seems nosy and perchance useful — and apt to beryllium a batch cheaper than nan $3,300 ThinkPad Plus Gen 6 rollable. Lenovo reps told maine that nan VertiFlex conception could besides beryllium easy scaled to different laptop sizes. Do group want their laptop screens to rotate into image mode? I person nary idea. I surely wouldn’t mind it, for nan correct price. But I emotion quirky devices, and I’m happy to spot Lenovo propulsion much ideas astatine nan wall and spot what sticks.

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