At an IFA 2024 showcase, Lenovo unveiled a gaggle of latest laptops that function the shiny new Intel Core Extremely 200V collection chips.
The hyped-up Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips, discovered inside a number of the greatest laptops of 2024 (e.g., Microsoft Floor Laptop computer 7), are all the trend, however there is a new sheriff on the town.
Intel claims that its Core Extremely 200V collection processors can ship as much as 20 hours of battery life. We’ll have to check this daring proclamation for ourselves, however these processors may be discovered inside Lenovo’s brand-spankin’ new ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Version (amongst different new Lenovo laptops).
Whereas trying out the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Version, nonetheless, Lenovo shocked me with a brand new voice-activated idea laptop computer known as “Lenovo Auto Twist AI PC.”
Lenovo Auto Twist AI PC: What can it do?
The Lenovo Auto Twist can reply to the next instructions, with “Hi Twist” being the wake phrase.
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“Hi Twist, Close Laptop”
The Lenovo Auto Twist in its “closed” state.
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“Hi Twist, Open Laptop”
The Lenovo Auto Twist’s show.
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Hello Twist, Open Pill Mode
Lenovo Auto Twist on its journey to pill mode.
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“Hi Twist, Dancing Mode”
Lenovo’s laptop computer can do a twisty dance to indicate off the vary of its capabiltiies.
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Essentially the most jaw-dropping instructions had been “Hi Twist, Open Tablet Mode” and “Hi Twist, Dancing Mode.” From a clamshell state, I watched the Lenovo laptop computer swivel its show 180-degrees — just like the woman in The Exorcist — and bend backward right into a pill mode posture.
The “Hi Twist, Dancing Mode” command confirmed off the Lenovo Auto Twist’s full vary of movement. With a ballerina on the display, I noticed the laptop computer do 180-degree turns earlier than putting the show in an ungainly, unnatural place. (Hey, not each laptop computer has rhythm; give this one a break.)
The mission behind the Lenovo Auto Twist is accessibility. Some customers could profit from a voice-activated laptop computer that does not require sure handsy maneuvers.
Once more, the Lenovo Auto Twist is only a proof-of-concept, so you will not discover it in the marketplace anytime quickly. However it offers us a peek into the longer term, offering perception into what could come our means down the road.
