Lenovo's Latest Laptop Concept Might Be The Ultimate Doomscrolling Machine

Lenovo is nary alien to laptops pinch funky displays. The institution has made a notebook pinch a tri-fold screen, 1 pinch a rollable panel and multiple systems pinch flexible displays. But this twelvemonth astatine IFA, Lenovo is testing retired yet different caller creation pinch its latest conception laptop, and this clip it whitethorn person created nan eventual doomscrolling machine.

Its charismatic sanction is nan ThinkBook Vertiflex Concept and erstwhile it's closed, it looks almost precisely for illustration a accepted 14-inch clamshell laptop. But if you look closer, you'll announcement that its surface has a concealed feature: nan expertise to rotate 90 degrees into image mode. This intends you tin move to a taller facet ratio for tasks for illustration coding, editing photos and videos, aliases simply browsing your favourite vertically-oriented societal media app.

Naturally, to heighten its image mode capabilities, Lenovo included support for pairing nan laptop pinch your telephone via its Smart Connect app, which allows you to reflector aliases widen nan latter’s show connected a bigger surface aliases quickly transportation files conscionable by dragging and dropping. In a batch of ways, nan Vertiflex Concept feels for illustration nan laptop type of 1 of LG's past phones — the LG Wing — while besides sharing a batch of similarities pinch TVs for illustration nan rotating Samsung Sero. And fixed nan continued emergence successful fame of vertical photos and videos connected societal media, it's really benignant of a astonishment that it's taken a mainstream PC shaper this agelong to create a laptop for illustration this.

On a much applicable level, I really admit that moreover pinch a rotating display, it doesn't consciousness for illustration there's overmuch of a punishment erstwhile it comes to added heft aliases thickness. The Vertiflex Concept weighs conscionable 3 pounds and measures 0.7 inches thin, which isn’t acold disconnected from what you’d get from a emblematic 14-inch ultraportable. And while Lenovo hasn’t provided overmuch successful nan measurement of hardware specs (this is simply a conception instrumentality aft all), I noticed that nan laptop does characteristic a patient number of connectivity options, including 2 USB-C ports, 1 USB-A connector, a full-size HDMI jack, 3.5mm audio and a microSD paper reader.

Now, Lenovo has shown disconnected much conception devices than practically immoderate different awesome OEM successful caller history, truthful of course, nan Vertiflex wasn’t nan only prototype nan institution had connected show for IFA 2025. There was besides nan Smart Motion Concept, but that felt little impactful because alternatively of being a standalone product, this point is simply a laptop stand. It uses nan sensors connected immoderate it’s connected to to way your look and automatically reposition your laptop’s surface successful nan correct position.

The thought is that if you're making a presentation, nan guidelines allows your laptop to amended support your look successful framework while besides making judge its mics and speakers are pointed successful nan optimal direction. Alternatively, if you'd alternatively power nan guidelines yourself, nan instrumentality tin beryllium paired to a ringing pinch motion support. Finally, Lenovo says nan Smart Motion conception besides has immoderate features to do things for illustration thief you support ergonomically friends postures.

However, arsenic some products are experimental devices, there's nary connection connected whether Lenovo will move these into due unit offerings. But if either nan Vertiflex aliases Smart Motion concepts onslaught your fancy, you mightiness want to opportunity thing (maybe connected societal media for nan social-media focused laptop) to springiness Lenovo a spot of other encouragement.