All the weirdest Lenovo announcements from CES 2023 - Mashable

That small feline underneath the TV is your portal to the metaverse. Credit: Lenovo

Nothing says CES rather similar "finding ways to participate the metaverse without a VR headset."

Everyone’s favourite yearly tech league is successful afloat swing, and that means determination are bizarre, futuristic devices aplenty to cheque out. Lenovo, successful particular, revealed immoderate products that volition tickle your fancy if you similar innovation for the involvement of innovation. 

From a genuinely off-the-wall metaverse instrumentality to a dual-screen laptop and adjacent a tablet that looks an atrocious batch similar thing Amazon would release, present are the coolest things Lenovo showed disconnected astatine CES 2023.

Project Chronos

Let’s commencement with the astir bizarre of Lenovo’s announcements: Project Chronos. The still-codenamed instrumentality benignant of looks similar a tiny projector, but it sits underneath a TV oregon monitor, and plugs successful via HDMI. What it really does is wherever things get a small kooky.

Sort of similar the aged Xbox Kinect camera, Project Chronos uses its camera to seizure your assemblage (allegedly down to adjacent your facial expressions) and fto you power a virtual avatar without the request for a virtual world oregon augmented world headset. Lenovo says this could beryllium utilized to make VTuber avatars oregon adjacent alteration virtual fittingness classes. 

Both those things already exist, caput you. But, hey, this could beryllium a caller mode to bash them. Unfortunately, Lenovo didn’t springiness america a merchandise date, price, oregon adjacent the existent sanction of Project Chronos astatine CES.

Kindle Scribe Smart Paper

Just past month, Amazon released the Kindle Scribe. It’s a precise ample e-reader with a tablet-sized show and a built-in stylus for note-taking and doodling. This adjacent instrumentality from Lenovo is...kind of besides that.

Called the Smart Paper, this instrumentality has a 10.3-inch E-ink show with a built-in, no-battery stylus. You tin usage said stylus to people up blank enactment pages oregon marque notes connected documents you’re reading. It has much pen types than Kindle Scribe (ballpoint, calligraphy, etc.) and wide appears to beryllium much precocious successful the doodling arena.

Oh, and of people you tin work e-books connected it. If you privation a Kindle Scribe but don’t privation to enactment Amazon, you tin get Lenovo Smart Paper for $400 sometime successful 2023.

Yoga Book 9i

At last, professionals who emotion utilizing 2 monitors but can’t marque it enactment connected the spell yet person an enactment from Lenovo. Meet the Yoga Book 9i.

Priced astatine a whopping $2,100 and launching successful summertime 2023, Yoga Book 9i is, successful Lenovo’s words, the world’s archetypal "full size dual surface OLED laptop." Dig done the assorted qualifiers and tech buzzwords successful there, and you’ll find a laptop that has 2 13.3-inch screens stacked vertically with a hinge successful the middle.

You tin video telephone connected 1 surface and play Solitaire successful the other. You tin connect oregon detach a Bluetooth keyboard, utilizing it arsenic either a laptop oregon a tablet. And astir importantly, you tin adjacent prop it up with the 2 screens oriented vertically similar a book, successful lawsuit you’d ever request to bash that for immoderate reason. 

For existent though, immoderate of america consciousness bare without a 2nd monitor. Simply wage Lenovo much than 2 Gs and you tin hole that problem.

ThinkPhone, courtesy of Motorola

Last but not least, Lenovo is making a phone! Sort of, anyway.

The caller ThinkPhone doesn't person a steadfast merchandise day oregon terms yet, and it's really made by Motorola, but business-minded Lenovo customers whitethorn privation to springiness it a look erstwhile it launches this year. It's an Android 13 handset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, up to 12GB RAM, and up to 512GB of storage. It's got a large 6.6-inch show with sub-6Ghz 5G connectivity and a sizable 5,000mAh battery, too.

But the specs don't archer the afloat story.

ThinkPhone is designed to enactment with ThinkPad PCs. When you get the 2 devices together, they seamlessly connect, allowing you to transcript substance from 1 to another; usage the telephone arsenic an net hotspot; oregon adjacent utilize the phone's 32MP selfie camera arsenic a webcam for video calls. Productivity-focused users tin besides driblet files from 1 to the different and spot the aforesaid acceptable of notifications crossed some devices.

ThinkPhone whitethorn look similar a mean Android phone, but really, it's doing its ain thing.

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