Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

Lenovo isn't shy astir trying caller things. Last year, the PC shaper teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED show that folded implicit the apical of the laptop lid, acceptable to flip up whenever you needed the other surface space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically astatine the interaction of a button—this 1 is a existent product you tin actually buy.

Get acceptable for different whacky concept. At IFA 2025, the tech accumulation successful Berlin, Lenovo unveiled its latest idea: the Lenovo ThinkBook VertiFlex. This is simply a laptop with a surface that tin manually swivel from a modular horizontal predisposition to vertical.

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By default, the ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept looks similar a mean 14-inch laptop. Look intimately astatine the screen's edge, however, and you'll spot a 2nd furniture jutting out; that's the existent screen. Grab the close country borderline of the surface and propulsion it upward, and the show volition smoothly swivel up into a vertical orientation.

The backmost sheet the surface is mounted connected has a felt backing to support everything creaseless and scratch-free, and you tin adjacent prop a telephone up present successful this orientation. There's a mechanics wrong that manages the question and keeps it operating smoothly. Despite this, the PC is inactive reasonably slim astatine 17.9 mm, and it weighs astir 3 pounds. (The 14-inch MacBook Pro is astir 15 mm heavy and weighs 3.4 pounds.)

I usage a dual-screen setup with 1 vertical show adjacent to my main ultrawide monitor astatine home. Having a vertical surface is simply a game-changer, arsenic it's cleanable for applications that utilize much vertical space. Email is simply a large example, truthful are apps similar Slack, thing to bash with PDFs, and adjacent astir connection processing software. But I've yet to alteration my surface predisposition successful the mediate of a workflow.