Lenovo’s quirky laptop follows you around the meeting room

Leave it to Lenovo to go back to the past for its next new laptop. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist is designed specifically for the workplace, allowing people to move the screen to project presentations or other materials around meeting rooms, evoking the company’s previous designs such as 2012’s Lenovo ThinkPad Twist.

But the twist on the Twist this year is how Lenovo functionally applies AI to the rotating screen approach. Not only does the screen rotate manually, it’s motorized and uses the camera to track you as you move around the laptop, like a physical version of Apple’s Center Stage technology.

Unlike some of Lenovo’s AI products shown off this year, the Gen 7 Auto Twist will actually hit the market in June 2026, with a starting price of $1,650. The laptop was first shown as A concept device back at CES 2024and it looks pretty similar now that it’s finalized for commercial sale, though Lenovo said so press release This new version spins faster and is quieter.

In Lenovo’s display area at CES 2026, I saw the Gen 7 Auto Twist as it rotated its screen to follow me. It also has another AI-powered mode where the screen lights up with large Kyuubi-type eyes, giving the laptop a surprisingly companionable personality. It’s supposed to respond to voice commands too, but the noisy demo floor made it difficult to hear some, so I’ll chalk that up to the environment — and note that it’s not something I can personally vouch for in the final laptop.

The Gen 7 Auto Twist is positioned as a lightweight laptop (just over 3 pounds) rather than a powerful machine powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. The 14-inch 2.8K OLED display is sharp but not particularly bright (500 nits), making it suitable for indoor use.

The Gen 7 Auto Twist is just one of many laptops Lenovo showed off at CES 2026, including ThinkPad Rollable XD Laptop With the screen rises vertically and Legion Pro rollable laptop concept Intended for gamers to extend their display horizontally for better gaming on the go.

Lenovo hasn’t shared when or if these devices will be made into commercial versions, but since the Gen 7 Auto Twist was shown at CES as a concept just a couple of years ago, it’s possible we could see any of these twistable devices hit the market in the coming years.