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TL;DR Lenovo has showcased a new concept laptop with a rotating display.
The display features a special mechanism that allows switching between landscape and portrait orientations.
The concept isn’t coming to the market yet, though it looks close to ready for production.
We’ve seen laptops with dual screens. We’ve seen laptops with flexible screens that unfold into larger ones. We’ve even seen laptops with rolling screens that expand for a bigger real estate. Many of these concept-turned-products were showcased by Lenovo, which is now taking unveiling a new concept with another unusual screen layout. This new concept laptop, showcased at IFA 2025 today, embodies the rising trend for portrait monitors with a screen that swivels between portrait and landscape orientations.
Lenovo’s new ThinkBook VertiFlex is a proof of concept for a laptop with a screen that rotates along its center. The laptop, internally referred to as Project Pivo, features a 14-inch screen anchored to a mechanism that allows using the same screen in both orientations.
Lenovo emphasizes that the vertical display can be better utilized for reading longer documents, writing or reviewing code, or for better multitasking. Moreover, when the display is vertically aligned, the empty space behind it can also be utilized as a phone stand, so it can be used alongside the laptop.
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Despite this mechanism for rotating the display, the laptop is only about 18mm (~0.7 inches) thick. Lenovo also claims the laptop weighs just 1.39kg (~3.1 lbs), but hasn’t revealed details about the material of construction. Additionally, there are no details about the screen’s resolution or the underlying display technology.
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