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

Uhm, cool I guess. Why should we use this? Does it have any advantage over classical displays?

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

Immediately lost me at non-tactile keyboard. Who wants this.

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.

I am happy that the common consensus in this topic is "why?"

It's definitely a concept, but I can't for the life of me envision the use case.

Lenovo failed to impress me with their laptops. Brand isnt worth dick anymore

If it doesn't solve a problem, it's over engineered nonsense.

I always loved looking at transparent screens in movies and shows. Everything on the screen is bright and colorful, and the camera is able to pan to a view where the background provides a flat color so everything is legible!

Can't see these working theat well in the real world. How would it do a dark mode? What about bright sunlight and a busy background? The example images already look like the background is going to be extremely distracting, and those are the ones they chose to show it off.

So what's the benefit of it being transparent?

This would be cool expanded to fit window panes in your home. I know I've enjoyed putting on the youtube Yule-tide fireplace on my TV to make the home more cozy in the winter, it'd be even cooler to turn "winter" mode on in your windows, really complete the hygge feeling

Disgusting. Other than shock value there's absolutely no benefit to any of the design factors. Keyboard is not tactile and it will probably tire your hands fast. Screen is annoying to use and can only be used indoors. It's as if they took worst experiences and then amplified them. What's that, you hate typing on your screen keyboard, how about we make keyboard also touch based and we move it away from screen, now you have to look at keys while typing. Ooh, you hate glares, how about you see glares from front and behind the screen.

y tho

I am so not interested in transparent screen for consumer use. At least not in this shape.

This isn't what we meant when we said bring back transparent electronics.

I feel like most of the most of the people here didn’t read the article or watch the video. If you’re asking “why would anyone need this”, the article touches on it:

One of Lenovo’s big ideas is that the form factor could be useful for digital artists, helping them to see the world behind the laptop’s screen while sketching it on the lower half of the laptop where the keyboard is[…]

Also, it’s a prototype, yet people are responding as if this is a product that Lenovo is launching. Even if transparent screens do become a popular but useless fad, that wouldn’t nullify the value of this prototype. Trying shit is fun, especially if it’s something we’ve been imagining in sci-fi for years!

Aaargh it looks so cool and futuristic but I know it's impractical as hell

This is something I'd really want, but I couldn't justify spending money on it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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, Spain, with another somehow even more sci-fi concept device.

“I am not a good artist,” Lenovo’s executive director of ThinkPad portfolio and product, Tom Butler, admits to me in an interview, “but I can bring something behind and I can trace it.” In the room we’re sitting in, that means pulling a bunch of sunflowers behind the laptop screen, but Butler pitches the idea of an architect being able to sit on location and sketch a building without taking their eyes off the environment in front of them.

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 the company to a resolution as low as 480p.

When images of this device first started leaking, I assumed this was meant as just another sci-fi flourish, but it’s actually part of Lenovo’s pitch for artists.

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 toward.

Halfway through my interview, I pulled my (decidedly nontransparent) MacBook’s screen forward to double-check my phone behind it, and Butler leaped on it immediately.

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