Lenovo’s coolest new concepts will keep ideas (for now)

Cellular World Congress 2026 is simply ramping up over in Barcelona, and Lenovo has arrived with a cadre of latest laptops, tablets, and different devices. Whereas I’m positive there are many individuals glad to see a brand new Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Version, the corporate’s most fascinating {hardware} in all probability isn’t coming to a Finest Purchase anytime quickly.

For one, there’s that folding gaming tablet-handheld-thing. The Legion Go Fold combines the same format to the ThinkPad X1 Fold with express gaming sensibilities: an 11.6-inch folding display, an iPad-style folio keyboard case (with considerably cringey “city camo”), and a set of controller grips that flip it handheld with an infinite display. You may also play it with the display folded in half backwards, making it a smaller “conventional handheld when area is tight.” (Bizarre to name it “conventional” in a market section that’s not even 5 years outdated but, however okay.)

It is a genuinely cool thought! Not solely can it fold all the way down to be much more compact than another large handhelds, it may use that folding display as a pure splitscreen mode, gameplay on prime and a secondary window (like, say, a information or a reside chat) on the underside. It’s additionally packing some novel {hardware} below the display. The Intel Core Extremely 7 258V makes this one of many solely Intel-based handhelds available on the market (the one different one from a serious model is the MSI Claw), and the incorporation of the Legion Go’s mouse-style “FPS Mode” controller is neat.

However alas, that is solely an idea—and contemplating how costly the Legion Go 2 is, it appears unlikely that Lenovo would add to that problem with a posh and expensive folding display.

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One other one introduced at MWC is the AI Work Companion, an evolution of good home-style shows that Lenovo has made prior to now. This little bonus display sits in your desk, principally wanting like a retro clock or an animated doodle, and prompts an “AI” agent of your selecting with an enormous crimson button. It additionally doubles as a charging dock.

At the same time as an “AI” curmudgeon, I’ve to confess that that is in all probability a great approach to work together with such issues in a tangible method (as a substitute of a dozen mini-apps or sidebars). However identical to the Legion Go Fold, this can be a idea.

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Lenovo additionally has a model of this that’s really just a little Pixar-ish robotic, the “AI Workmate Idea,” which… no. Simply no. Don’t make stuff on my desk transfer by itself, please. I’m clumsy sufficient! I don’t want issues swinging and swatting round.

Try the Yoga Ebook Professional 3D (the lead picture above), which makes use of a lenticular glasses-free 3D show for its major display and a full OLED show on the keyboard deck (effectively, the spot on a laptop computer that may usually be a keyboard) to present you a dual-screen format. I actually like its creator-focused vibes, accented by the glossy however practical kickstand that places the underside display at a great angle for utilizing a stylus to attract.

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You possibly can even use “snap-on pads” so as to add bodily controls, nice for 3D modeling or artwork software program, with out protecting all the show with a keyboard. It is a nice thought for on-the-go creators, who need some physicality when utilizing these instruments. It’s powered by a Core Extremely 7 and an RTX 5070, giving it loads of juice for all that work. However once more, that is only a idea. In the event you’re bored with listening to that, you’re not the one one!

Lenovo makes a lot of idea gadgets—you may see the increasing rolling show on a Legion gaming laptop computer from CES for an instance. They often create a number of yearly. However with the doable exception of the Legion Go Fold, all of those appear doable, if not precisely mass market (particularly with costs for practically all shopper tech going up and up).

And to be honest, there are typically wild Lenovo designs that do make it into shoppers’ palms, just like the aforementioned ThinkPad X1 Fold or any variety of ThinkBook Plus designs that push the envelope yearly. I solely want extra of Lenovo’s wild hairs would get the identical remedy, so we are able to see which might work and which wouldn’t out in the true world.