The ThinkPad laptop concept has a rotatable screen that wraps around its lid

At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing another new laptop with a convertible display: the ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept. It’s a ThinkPad, complete with the iconic red TrackPoint, but featuring a flexible OLED display that wraps around the outside of its lid. Slide your finger along the folded rotation of its touchscreen, and the laptop will expand vertically from a 13.3-inch display to a taller 15.9-inch display – freeing up more screen real estate for productive work. It’s a bit like the foldable ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 that Lenovo has already released, but the screen and drivers are all in the lid instead of tucking the screen into the chassis.

By wrapping the screen around the lid, you can have a usable workspace outside. When closed, the ThinkPad XD can display touch-friendly user interface elements on its lid. Tapping it will extend the screen slightly, lengthening the cover to make it easier to open. The glass covering the outward-facing touchscreen and the curved spine at the top of the lid are made of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and the transparent portion of the lid exposes the rotatable screen mechanisms.

It’s really fun to expand and contract the Concept XD’s screen, see the internal motors and pulleys in action and change the look of the laptop. After seeing the XD in a brief demo in person, I think every foldable device should have at least some transparent components.

Ever since Lenovo made the rollable ThinkBook actually hit the market, it’s been playing around with other concepts that could bring shape-shifting displays to a wider audience. the ThinkBook Flip concept I removed the expensive mechanics and motors of the rollable and instead manually folded the screen on itself. the ThinkBook Vertiflex concept It allows you to simply rotate its screen to achieve a taller vertical orientation. Both concepts could theoretically cost less than the negotiable US$3,300 they’re on sale now.

The ThinkPad XD concept could take this a step further, as the rotating assembly is housed entirely inside the lid. When it was introduced, a Lenovo representative told me “in an ideal world, this would be a board option” that you could configure a regular ThinkPad with. We’ll have to see whether or not that day comes, or whether XD will get its own standalone release. Lenovo isn’t going into other details about the See the real versions.

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