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A 17-inch laptop with a glass screen isn’t the most portable device, but being able to move it when needed is vital to making use of the display. Still, the screen remained largely legible in all of these scenarios. A dark background helps some lighter images and text show up more clearly, and putting it against a window or other light source can diminish the effect.
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Since the screen is transparent, the background-be it a wall or window-behind the display does make a difference to your viewing experience, though maybe not as big a one as you’d think. In this way, part of the screen can remain transparent, while the other displays an opaque white or colored background. If you pull up, say, a side window or panel, it can display it as entirely white rather than see-through by activating all of those LEDs, showing up white as on a normal screen. The micro LEDs are, crucially, capable of making portions of the display virtually opaque, too. Video content is somewhat less viewable in transparent mode-all of the quickly varying colors and motion don't stand out quite as well on a transparent background, but you can still see what you're watching easily enough. (Credit: Joseph Maldonado)ĭesktop icons seemingly float in the air-mostly crisp, with only a slight fuzz around the edges-but remain perfectly usable. Despite the default transparency, it is easy to see images, text, and icons displayed on the screen our photographs here aren't nearly as clear as it was in person, because the effect is simply difficult to capture on camera. In short, it’s extremely cool to see in person, one of those stand-out prototype moments you enjoy before thinking too much about the practicality of it all. We’ll go through those below, but putting them aside for a moment, experiencing and using the screen is what struck me first. (In normal desktop operation, your text and icons will read backward from the reverse side, of course.) Lenovo ran us through some demos of potential use cases, giving a glimpse of future workflows. Your first inclination (and mine) may be to wonder why you’d want a glass display, and what benefits it brings. Micro LEDs present high brightness as an advantage this panel can push up to 1,000 nits, which is also crucial to displaying visibly on clear glass. This screen measures 17.3 inches diagonally, and it is completely borderless, with glass on three sides connecting to the bottom hinge. The display-an array of micro LEDs sandwiched between clear glass-is the obvious draw here, though it’s not the only interesting or unusual part of the design. For a closer look, and some ideas for what you’d use a see-through screen to do, check out the video above and details below. This is 100% a proof-of-concept device, promising only that this technology is possible maybe it appears in a different product down the line. As it stands, Lenovo currently has no plans to bring Project Crystal to market as a real product. Before you get too carried away and scroll down for a release date or a price, stop here.