Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress::Lenovo’s ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop is a 17.3-inch notebook with a transparent screen and a built-in tablet for you to doodle on.
I feel like most of the most of the people here didn’t read the article or watch the video. If you’re asking “why would anyone need this”, the article touches on it:
One of Lenovo’s big ideas is that the form factor could be useful for digital artists, helping them to see the world behind the laptop’s screen while sketching it on the lower half of the laptop where the keyboard is[…]
Also, it’s a prototype, yet people are responding as if this is a product that Lenovo is launching. Even if transparent screens do become a popular but useless fad, that wouldn’t nullify the value of this prototype. Trying shit is fun, especially if it’s something we’ve been imagining in sci-fi for years!
If it doesn’t solve a problem, it’s over engineered nonsense.
Yeah, my first reaction was cool, but why do I need this again?
Immediately lost me at non-tactile keyboard. Who wants this.
Uhm, cool I guess. Why should we use this? Does it have any advantage over classical displays?
Some very novel jobs where you need to be at a computer but also like to see the person in front of you? For the sake of transparency so the client can follow a bit?
I am just guessing. Transparent screens as tech are very promising for AR, imagine a technicians tablet with this? But a laptop… more a novelty.
So what’s the benefit of it being transparent?
It functions more like a drawing tablet, with the ability to put something behind the screen allowing you to easily trace it.
5 year old me would love it
so nothing most users would use. It sounds more practical for kids.
A lot of people are complaining about it’s use case for laptops, but I think a display like this on cars or glasses/goggles could be interesting.
Doesn’t this already exist since half a century? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display No need for a transparent display at all.
HUDs on cars rely on a screen on the dash that reflects onto the windshield and into your eyeballs. They’re good at night, but during the day they can be pretty hard to see unless the screen is absurdly bright. Maybe this wouldn’t have that issue?
More like ready to show everyone what you’re looking at. I’m sure businesses will love having their confidential documents broadcast to the entire coffee shop.
In the article Lenovo says that if/when they go to production it will absolutely have the ability to enable/disable the transparency
But then what’s even the point?
“We need to find a way to block the transparency on our transparent displays!”
“…You mean like a regular screen?”
Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.
