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Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future

A cool sci-fi concept, but what’s the killer app?

A year after flexing its R&D muscles with a rollable laptop that expanded its screen with a simple button push, Lenovo is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Although the 17.3-inch display in this concept is only 720p, AG Zheng, Lenovo’s executive director of SMB product and solutions, tells me that going with an OLED would have limited them to a resolution as low as 480p. But Butler says he has “very high confidence” that its technologies will make it into a real laptop in the next five years, and hopes that revealing this proof of concept will start a public conversation about what it could be useful for, setting a target for Lenovo to work towards.

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