The Futuristic Lenovo Folding Screen Laptop

So you guys know I've been talking about folding screens

It's cool, it's sci-fi, it's the future. Now up until this point I've only showcased the idea of a folding screen in a smartphone

In the form of the Galaxy Fold. Which, well who knows where that thing is right now

It's, it's, who can find it? I don't know. Where's the Galaxy Fold? It ain't here

It doesn't mean it's not the future. It doesn't mean it's gonna, it's not gonna be an eventual reality

because this tech, the hardware, appears to be here to stay and trickling into other devices, including this one in front of me

Now, this thing is a prototype, but I am very excited to have it here

to be one of the first people to look at this in-studio. This is the Lenovo Folding PC

Now, you may have seen clips floating around the internet. It's a totally different form factor

Forget about a smartphone. This is a way bigger folding display aimed at kind of replacing maybe your tablet, maybe your laptop

That remains to be seen. It's a clear indication into what a futuristic laptop replacement, tablet replacement type of computing platform can be

I'm going to bring in Willy Do because he's been briefed. He's like, he's the expert

Look at this. He made notes and everything. We got to be prepared on this one because the eventual commercially available product may change a little bit

But this showcased the proof of concept really nicely. So... Okay. At first, it just, it kind of looks like the X1 tablet

You know how the screen comes off from the key? It kind of seems like that's what it might be

But of course, I'm guessing, like, that's not the magic part. Well, the magic part is what

Like this? Cool. Oh. Now it's kind of like a notebook, like a leather

It kind of like a leather notebook like something you would write with a pen in Exactly It got a similar vibe Like look at the size of it It tiny Yeah Now keep in mind I mean like we looking at this you see the hinges here You not really sure how it operates Prototype We just need to be clear

Prototype. Now obviously this is an OLED as well because it bends

So Samsung has like a snap hinge. This one is apparently torque

Torque hinge. Yeah. It sounds very powerful. Yeah. Apparently you could fold it many, many times. They did a lot of testing on it

Obviously, you could prop it up like this, and there's some sort of a stand, right

Am I right about this? Yep. Okay, so you could prop it up like this, and then have what, like a little keyboard module

in front of it. So, 13.3 inch display, kind of a surprising aspect ratio, a little taller

The more interesting version of that would be like this, right? Like you would have it like that

with like a keyboard down here. Yeah, and you could show it off. So, tap on that, and it should reorient itself. Hey

And then you could check out a video here. Whoa. You can start searching

It's so magical. So, look at that. Okay, Will. So, why don't you break down the specs for us here

I know you got a list there. So, for the display, it's using an LG display here

It's obviously an OLED 2K display with a 4 by 3 ratio

Each screen is 9.6 inches. each of these two yes so if if it was two separate displays it would be 9.6 on each side yeah look at

this what it's like i got a cookbook or something here well and it's also uses a wacom pen that

could be attached right here so apparently it's also got an all-day battery in it i mean we don't

how can we really break down what that means at this point very early stages it's also going to

be available in 2020. So it's still a ways out. Let's keep that in mind. Early days. For

a package this scale imagine you at the coffee shop Will Oh this is super portable Guy like you Yeah Latte okay let me try typing on this i real curious i a big keyboard guy it the reason i even using the x1 carbon now can you

hold it like this and start typing i wonder if like the keys can split and then you could start

i could type like this i could type like this i could reach to the middle there you go let's see unbox therapy

yeah I mean like yeah and that is so weird when you're scrolling

on the bent display look at this Jack that's magic right there

okay that's technology that's why we do this it's why we're in this business

it's crazy man it's science fiction what are we doing what are we doing in technology

well it's like when I used to watch you know in the old days

Blade Runner type stuff this is what they couldn't put in the movie

because they didn't have it at the time, but this is sort of what you imagined. I'm having an experience right now

Yeah. Because it doesn't, in your brain, it doesn't really fully, you don't fully receive it

And just knowing that the keyboard is digitized, it could be removed at any time

It's like, oh, it could be more screen real estate. Changing its form to meet the criteria

whatever it is that you're asking it for. Exactly. That's the exciting part

This one demonstrates that possibly even better than the phone. Because the phone, there was a lot of conversation about

well, when do you use the phone when it's folded up? And when do you fold it out

And do you have the time? Because with a phone, there's still a lot of one-handed use that goes on throughout the day

A casual kind of like pop in, pop out type of thing. Still trying to figure it out

Still trying to figure it out. And from a form factor perspective, the thing roughly the same scale

This one has some key advantages. that the phone can't say that it has to the same extent

If it's a replacement for a laptop, let's say, it ends up in a way smaller package than a laptop

with a similar specification. A lot of people speculated that this was the true implementation for this tech Because laptops are big Look at that thing that you using And you missing out a lot of screen real estate if the keyboard there

You kind of have to think the opposite where like the screen is first. And then, you know, you add haptic feedback or something

It becomes like a full-fledged keyboard that you can feel. And that's really all you need

Feel, though, that's the thing. Because for me, I'm always talking feel, Will

I know there's gonna be some external module, but like am I carrying it everywhere? Probably not

Flip side though, you pull that out at a coffee shop? Holy moly

You're turning some heads. You're gonna get some serious attention, dude. Whoa

Look, I don't know, man. I'm into laptops. I'm a laptop guy. I'm typing. Tactile. That's my thing

so is the form factor exchange significant enough for me to imagine a universe in which this is it

the most compelling part is the scale of it you walk around with this like you don't even it's

nothing and then of course the fact that you get oled which is a difficult thing i mean you don't

see it in a lot of laptops to begin with this is not the finished product i expect this to improve

yes there are going to be some drawbacks there are always drawbacks well but in this case the

question is do you get more than you gotta give up and maybe so like what if i told you that's a 13

inch display right there you'd be like no it's not i'd be like a sketchbook you'd be like that's a

sketchbook i'd be like oh yeah tough guy huh my head just exploded yeah exactly tough guy i'm

excited to get to check stuff like this out to be honest i've said it in the past with stuff that's

super science fiction like this ambitious like this this is the kind of stuff that makes me

appreciate this job specifically to get to examine this right as it's kind of on the cutting edge

the bleeding edge as they say in tech so uh i'm excited for moments like this and uh

there you have it it's the folding pc from lenovo