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Lenovo Crystal Concept


Eban

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I know its a gimmiky turdbook, but it's 17inch and has touch panel keyboard

But It does look scifi cool:classic_cool:

 

I'd like to see it in outdoors in full sun :classic_tongue:

 

 

https://www.wired.com/story/lenovo-project-crystal-transparent-laptop-mwc-2024/

 

 

 

 

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That is sci-fi cool.  But I'm not sure if it's what I'd call practical.  I can think of at least one use case - it's winter, I'm at a coffee shop, getting ready to leave, and thinking, "did I leave my gloves behind my laptop's screen, or in my coat pocket?"  Currently, I have to reach behind my laptop and see if my gloves are there, and if not, find them in the coat pocket/where they fell on the floor/etc.  With this laptop?  Problem solved!  I could see them right through the screen!

 

The article does mention it can reach 1000 nits, not sure that has anything to do with it being transparent though.  I could see such bright screens being useful out in the sun.

 

For some nice historical context, GSM Arena did a writeup on mobile phones with transparent screens, of which there have been a few, including some that reached the market.  A couple of relevant quotes:

 

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Making a transparent display is not that difficult – in fact, LCDs are naturally transparent, just remove the backlight and you can see right through it. OLED is transparent too, that is how under display fingerprint readers and cameras work. The capacitive touch layer is transparent as well.

That doesn’t mean that there are no challenges – the motherboard and battery certainly aren’t transparent. That is why LG and Sony Ericsson limited the transparent window to a section of the phone, moving the opaque components out of the way.

 There’s also the other issue – a transparent display is hard to read, unless you put a plain background behind it, but that defeats the purpose.

 

 

I'll be curious to see one in person if they make it to my local Micro Center - but at this point it's not at the top of my Christmas wish list.

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