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.
Great! Now you and your best buddy dont have to sit next to eachother when watching porn and you can instead sit across from each other and make eye contact
“I love masturbating to porn with my bro”
More like ready to show everyone what you’re looking at. I’m sure businesses will love having their confidential documents broadcast to the entire coffee shop.
Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.
In the article Lenovo says that if/when they go to production it will absolutely have the ability to enable/disable the transparency
But then what’s even the point?
“We need to find a way to block the transparency on our transparent displays!”
“…You mean like a regular screen?”
Uhm, cool I guess. Why should we use this? Does it have any advantage over classical displays?
Even if it does, it has a ton of disadvantages too.
Yes. The advantage is it’s really cool.
You can get done damn near everything you need with super basic products, but is that how you roll?
Put a paper drawing behind the transparent screen and draw on the screen to digitize it.
Or, you know, use a scanner app?
Nah, that’s too affordable and easy to use for a True Artist.
Only and only use I can think of is tablet mode without relying on screen flipping somehow away from keyboard.
They were so busy asking if they could that they never bothered to ask if they should.
Exactly. There’s a market for that tech. Laptop ain’t it.
Immediately lost me at non-tactile keyboard. Who wants this.
People who don’t think about things before they buy.
A lot of people are complaining about it’s use case for laptops, but I think a display like this on cars or glasses/goggles could be interesting.
I am happy that the common consensus in this topic is “why?”
Aesthetic. Like is it good? Probably not. Is it cool? Hell yeah. In my eyes there’s two types of cyberpunk laptops: this, and some old beater running either arch or Debian. Of course Lemmy prefers the latter, but the former is just kinda it’s own variety of cool despite the ludicrous impracticality
it cant be cyberpunk if it runs on windows. or maybe from a dystopian angle where in future windows is the only os?
“Please wait for the update to finish before you dump your core”
It’s cyberpunk just glowing corporate tower cyberpunk not hacker breaking into it cyberpunk
If it doesn’t solve a problem, it’s over engineered nonsense.
Yeah, my first reaction was cool, but why do I need this again?
My only use that seemed reasonable for transparent screens is for collabertive workspaces where you want to more easily look at something and a coworker at the same time.
This marginal benifit for this niche use case just seems meh to me so far though…
This would be cool expanded to fit window panes in your home. I know I’ve enjoyed putting on the youtube Yule-tide fireplace on my TV to make the home more cozy in the winter, it’d be even cooler to turn “winter” mode on in your windows, really complete the hygge feeling
Just stick with the fire for all the windows too. This is fine.
This isn’t what we meant when we said bring back transparent electronics.
So what’s the benefit of it being transparent?
I am so not interested in transparent screen for consumer use. At least not in this shape.
You prefer a curve?
Circular laptops, I think you’re onto something here.
y tho
Disgusting. Other than shock value there’s absolutely no benefit to any of the design factors. Keyboard is not tactile and it will probably tire your hands fast. Screen is annoying to use and can only be used indoors. It’s as if they took worst experiences and then amplified them. What’s that, you hate typing on your screen keyboard, how about we make keyboard also touch based and we move it away from screen, now you have to look at keys while typing. Ooh, you hate glares, how about you see glares from front and behind the screen.
I feel like most of the most of the people here didn’t read the article or watch the video. If you’re asking “why would anyone need this”, the article touches on it:
One of Lenovo’s big ideas is that the form factor could be useful for digital artists, helping them to see the world behind the laptop’s screen while sketching it on the lower half of the laptop where the keyboard is[…]
Also, it’s a prototype, yet people are responding as if this is a product that Lenovo is launching. Even if transparent screens do become a popular but useless fad, that wouldn’t nullify the value of this prototype. Trying shit is fun, especially if it’s something we’ve been imagining in sci-fi for years!
