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There is no target audience. FTA: > Like its rollable laptop from last year, Lenovo isn’t pretending that it has any plans to release its ThinkBook Transparent
by azernik 3y ago
There is no target audience. FTA:
> Like its rollable laptop from last year, Lenovo isn’t pretending that it has any plans to release its ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop as a consumer device. But Butler says he has “very high confidence” that its technologies will make it into a real laptop in the next five years and hopes that revealing this proof of concept will start a public conversation about what it could be useful for, setting a target for Lenovo to work toward.
- DrBazza 3y agoIt feels very much 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should', but these kind of things often have practical uses that end up being completely novel.
- azernik 3y agoThat's pretty normal in R&D. Solutions in search of problems are a real thing, and concept designs like this are part of the process of finding those solutions. As long as they're not putting in the money to mass produce it, this seems like a perfectly rational and good R&D project.