Lenovo’s Concept Laptop Can Go Ultrawide at the Touch of a Key

We've seen laptops with rollable OLED screens before,

but at CES this year, Lenovo brought something

that we've never seen, which is a screen

that can horizontally expand at the touch of a key.

So it starts out at a 16 size,

but at the touch of a key, it can expand up

to a 21.5 size, which is a 21.9 aspect ratio,

which is really nice, it's a size

that a lot of people are using on ultra-wide monitors,

and at the touch of another key, it can grow

all the way up to 23.8,

which is a really big screen coming from just a 16 laptop.

Yes, it's fun to watch,

but more than that,

a lot of people are using these big ultra-wide monitors,

especially in the world of gaming.

And the fact that you can do that in the size

of a 16 gaming laptop is really neat.

As you might be able to see,

this is a really thick laptop

with a really thick lid.

This might be the thickest laptop lid I've ever seen,

but that's not all in terms of rollable laptops.

Lenovo also has this one, the ThinkPad XD Concept,

which uses another rollable screen

for more of a commercial use.

Now, this is a follow up to the actual rollable laptop

that came out last year,

but this one has a trick up its sleeve.

Once we get it to expand from the 13.3 up

to 16, the screen actually wraps around the back

to be on the lid rather than underneath the keyboard.

So it has all the benefits that the previous version had,

except now that you have that extra space on the lid.

I'm still not quite sure the use case for what that is,

but at least you're not wasting that space.

And unfortunately, it does mean

that the webcam is now on the side of the screen,

which is not ideal.

So that's the Legion Pro Rollable

and the ThinkPad XD Rollable.

These are both proof of concepts, meaning they're here,

they do work, but they are not necessarily real

products yet.

But, Lenovo does have a track record

of developing these technologies in these proof of concepts

and actually turning them into real products

that you can go out and buy.

It's done it many times over the years,

so we'll have to see if either

of these end up being one of those cases.