Lenovo’s Auto Twist laptop is going from concept to real product
At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept, the 14-inch thin-and-light sports a motorized pivoting hinge, allowing it to twist and angle its screen toward you. It can be manually controlled, but the real trick is tracking your head and automatically adjusting to your position or posture. It can follow you around a portion of a room while giving a presentation, and you can knock on its closed lid to have it automatically open.
The Auto Twist will also have an emoji-like AI companion software that reminds me of GERTY from the 2009 sci-fi movie Moon, turning to follow you and react to your ac …