It's no secret that flexible displays are becoming increasingly popular and Lenovo recently demonstrated a unique application for the technology.
Lenovo's Project Crystal is the world's first laptop with a transparent microLED display
The company just unveiled a pair of rollable gadgets, a smartphone and a laptop, that use flexible display technology to magically shrink and grow their screens. To the uninitiated, the device appears to change shape, and that’s not far from the truth. The flexible screens only move and fold together to create the illusion.
To start, Motorola’s rollable smartphone starts at a pocket-friendly 4 inches tall, but with the push of a button, the OLED display expands to a traditional smartphone height of 6.5 inches. Another click and the phone retracts back to its original size. The company notes that it’s fully usable at either size, with content adapting to the screen.
Lenovo also revealed a rollable laptop design. The demo shows the laptop starting in a standard landscape display. However, at the touch of a button, the screen rolls up into a larger square shape that’s better suited for documents or vertical TikTok videos.
