The Auto Twist’s display opens, closes, and rotates to tablet mode via your voice. (Plus, it follows your face automatically!) See our first look at this cool prototype laptop.
Alongside some more concrete PC announcements coming out of the IFA trade show, Lenovo also showed us a prototype laptop with an automatic hinge that can move and rotate the display by following voice commands.
The ThinkBook Auto Twist is only a prototype, with no current plans for a retail release, but it’s an exciting proof of concept. Through simple voice commands, the laptop can automatically open, close, and rotate the lid. It can even transition all the way into tablet mode without any manual handling, and its screen also moves to track your face position via the camera.
I tried out this device myself before today’s announcement; you can watch my experience in the video above and read some more detailed impressions below.How It Works: Auto Twist and Shout
Lenovo uses the ThinkBook brand to deploy some of its more innovative features and products, though the Auto Twist is taking that much further than most. Plenty of full retail systems sell under the ThinkBook brand, but this is a full-on experiment and, in its current form, is not aiming to come to market.
That means we have no pricing, specs, components, or other details to share here. Those simply aren’t a concern for Lenovo with this machine. The team wanted to develop a responsive, automated moving display, and it achieved that—it just so happens to be attached to this chassis, and the components aren’t essential at this stage of development.
