Lenovo’s concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress

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.

Great! Now you and your best buddy dont have to sit next to eachother when watching porn and you can instead sit across from each other and make eye contact

“I love masturbating to porn with my bro”

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.

Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.

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?”

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.

One person would be looking at a reversed image though, so that’s not going to fly.

Why not simply have a double sided monitor?

Even if it does, it has a ton of disadvantages too.

Yes. The advantage is it’s really cool.

You can get done damn near everything you need with super basic products, but is that how you roll?

Put a paper drawing behind the transparent screen and draw on the screen to digitize it.

Or, you know, use a scanner app?

Nah, that’s too affordable and easy to use for a True Artist.

So you can proudly watch porn in public and make not just people behind you uncomfortable, but also people in front of you!

Everyone in the circlejerk can look at the same screen.

Only and only use I can think of is tablet mode without relying on screen flipping somehow away from keyboard.

They were so busy asking if they could that they never bothered to ask if they should.

Exactly. There’s a market for that tech. Laptop ain’t it.

Sometimes you just gotta build a thing.

And that’s how you get the cube in the movie Cube.

Somebody was bound to do it.

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?

As an additional data point, I’ve never once had trouble seeing the HUD on my Mazda even while driving into the sun.

On the other hand, they’re also focused at infinity so it’s easier to glance at than a transparent screen.

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