At Mobile World Congress 2024, Lenovo showed off a new concept device called Project Crystal, which the company claims is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display. Commissioned by Lenovo’s ThinkPad division, Project Crystal is meant to explore potential use cases for systems with transparent displays. And while there are no plans to turn the concept into a retail device, between its screen and a touch-based keyboard, Lenovo’s latest concept feels like a glimpse at our future sci-fi laptops.
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3000nits huhu
0 privacy
you could make a fish tank with these screens in the glass and some animated fish to keep the real ones company. more generally in retail and exhibition type spaces there would be good uses for this tech, the laptop is probably the most pointless implementation though
or AR glasses
Instead of using this as main display it will be great for accessory displays like a transparent side panel of pc to show art work or real time monitoring, car HUD, smart windows glass etc etc
great coverage here! Thank you!
I can see this technology working for digital signage. Otherwise it's cool, but impractical.
as useful as an inflatable dartboard
I work in ICT. In the last 4 months, I've had two people come to hand in iPads they ran over by accident. Two people on two separate occasions, the same thing happened. If this type of screen ever came to market, I'd have a damn fit every time a person broke their device. Too many people have the motor skills of toddlers, and you can tell just by looking at their personal phones with the amount of cracked glass they have.
Nice idea Lenovo but keep this crazy idea in the crazy box.
Man, this would be great on a helmet's heads up display + that aforementioned AR integration.
this is a very interesting tech actually. for a laptop it might not be so practical. but for other devices this might be great.
We're getting closer to Tony Stark Tech everyday😅
Lenovo is positioning this device as a working tool for graphic designers, but who of them needs a 720p transparent display with incorrect color reproduction and lack of real black? What are the real practical cases for this laptop? This seems to be the standard of technological uselessness.
love it
This doesn't impress me at all. 😑
I can see companies buying these one day to make sure you're actually doing your work and not fooling around
Definition of 'looks cool but has zero functionality'
1/5 ★☆☆☆☆
This will make incredibly hard to hide
from other people in the room
that you're watching p*rn… 🔞
😂
Dangerous for Incognito users 😂
This is not coffeeshop proof and doesn't work well with my p*rn addiction.
I'd definitely like to have one just because it looks super cool. There may even be actual usage scenarios for this, either in places where you want to increase the "cool" factor and remove the barrier of a display between you and the customer (tv studios, hotel desks, etc) or for situations where you are matching something real with something virtual. Of course the coolest thing is screen savers though, imagine leaving your laptop and having some cool 3d demo playing "suspended" over your desk while you are not at the PC. I would say as soon as they add the option to make the screen opaque this thing could sell a lot, just for the cool factor.
if they were to make a back panel of any sort to not allow others opposite to see what they were doing on the screen, why bother using transparent display in the first place, that defeats the entire purpose of transparent display, it's like making a house entirely of glass to show people that a house made of only glass walls is possible, then go on to address the problem of being seen by passerbys and block those glass walss with brick walls
No privacy
that keyboard the truly useless part
car windshields indeed tho
Id use one 😊
I dont want to show what im doing to others
Please do make and sell this, Lenovo🥺
Lenovo has so many first, but nobody cares because they are not apple or American Jewish
Basic review only.
1:55….that's what a present day laptop is 🤣
2027
Lenovo does this in 2024: Nobody cares. Apples does this in 2039: Its sold out. This tech is AMAZING. Even for a concept.