A cool sci-fi concept, but what’s the killer app?

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.

  • snooggumsEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Ironically the first thought I had looking at this was “this would make a really great prop for some scifi movie”. My second thought was “this looks horrendous to actually use as a laptop”. Non-physical buttons suck as car manufacturers recently discovered, and aside from looking cool there’s virtually no positives to a transparent laptop screen and a whole raft of negatives.

      So yeah, very cool concept, utterly crap product.

    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      And in regards of text and graphs: everything is mirrored from behind. I am not sure what transparent screens may be used for.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        That’s kind of a cool secondary use though.

        A one button screen flip to present to someone on the other side would be marginally useful.