SCREEN TIME

In a market populated mostly by laptops that are perfectly functional, with a similar look, a few manufacturers have been trying something different with their displays

- RHYNHARDT KRYNAUW

Lenovo ThinkBook Transparent Display

This concept comes with a wild bezel-less 17.3-inch MicroLED display, offering up to 55 percent transparency when all its pixels are set to black and switched off. As the pixels light up, the display becomes less and less transparent until finally becoming a completely opaque white surface with a peak brightness of 1 000 nits.

The keyboard deck is a smooth touch surface the keys are projected on when you’re not scribbling on it. While we have not figured out the use case for a screen you can see through for us, personally – Lenovo reckons an ideal application would be for visual artists, where the screen would allow them to keep an eye on the subject and screen at the same time, similar to the old-school tech of a camera lucida. The touch-sensitive deck, then, would be used as a pen tablet. This model is not going into production, but we don’t think this is the last we’ll see of low-opacity displays.

Asus Zenbook DUO