An anonymous reader shared a report from the ongoing Mobile World Congress trade show. This year's big Scrum gatherer was Lenovo's long-rumored transparent laptop. It's real. It works amazingly well, and for all to see, its existence is evidence of formation beyond function. That's totally fine if it's a concept device. However, actually shipping the product is a completely different story. […] Roughly speaking, it looks like a laptop, with a transparent pane where the screen should be. It's probably best understood as a type of augmented reality device, in the sense that the graphics are overlaid on what's behind it.
It's a crowd-pleaser with a futuristic feel that embodies all sorts of sci-fi technology tropes. Transparent displays have become a kind of shorthand for future technology in stock art, and it's definitely great to see them in action. […] The bottom of the device is covered with a large capacitive touch surface. This area serves as both a keyboard and a large stylus-compatible drawing surface. Of course, a flat surface is no match for a real tactile keyboard. Typing isn't the best experience here, as evidenced by previous dual-screen Lenovo laptops. But that's the tradeoff for the versatility of the virtual version.
