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Do you having a second screen with your computer setup? What if your laptop could carry a second screen for you? That’s the idea behind Lenovo’s latest proof of concept, the ThinkBook Modular AI PC, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Lenovo is never shy to show off wacky, weird concept laptops. We’ve seen a PC with a transparent screen, one with a rollable OLED screen, a swiveling screen, and another with a flippy screen. At CES earlier this year, the company showed off a gaming laptop with a display that expands at the push of a button. Sometimes, these concepts turn into real products that go on sale (often in limited quantities).

At MWC 2026, Lenovo trotted out three concepts. While it’s unclear whether any of them will become real, purchasable products, there’s some unique utility here, and a peek at how computing experiences could change in the future.

A Laptop With a Built-In Portable Screen

The ThinkBook Modular AI PC has a second screen hanging magnetically off the back of the laptop, and it can show content to people sitting in front of you.

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This is with the second screen removed from the back and placed in front of the main display. The keyboard is removable and works via Bluetooth.

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As someone with a multi-screen setup at home and a fondness for portable monitors, the ThinkBook Modular AI PC appeals to me the most. At first glance, it looks a normal laptop. Take a look behind, and you’ll notice there’s a second screen magnetically hanging off the back of the laptop, a koala carrying a baby on its back.

The screen is connected to the laptop using pogo-pin connectors, so you can use it in this state to display content to people in front of you, say, if you were making a presentation during a meeting. Alternatively, you can pop this second screen off, remove a hidden kickstand resting under the laptop, and magnetically attach it to the 14-inch screen so that you have a traditional portable monitor experience. (You’ll need to connect this to the laptop via a USB-C cable in this orientation.)

If you don’t have the desk space for that orientation, you can always remove the keyboard from the base and pop the second screen there—it’ll auto-connect to the laptop via the pogo pins, and you’ll be able to use the Bluetooth keyboard to type on a dual-screen setup that resembles the Asus ZenBook Duo. The whole system is a fantastically portable method of improving productivity on the go, and the laptop isn’t too thick or cumbersome.

The ports are modular, so the idea is you can swap in whatever you need (or switch the port to the other side).

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Lenovo is also experimenting with modular ports. Want an HDMI when traveling? Swap that port in. Want USB-C instead? Go ahead. You can even choose which side of the laptop each port module goes on. (Lenovo is not the first to show off modular ports—Framework already offers such a thing on its repairable laptops.)

The whole concept feels polished enough that it could roll into production quickly—at least, one can only hope.

A Gaming Handheld Laptop

The Legion Go Fold Concept has a folding screen that can flip out for more vertical real estate.

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Next, we have the Legion Go Fold Concept. Lenovo already makes Legion Go gaming handhelds, but this unique iteration turns the console into a tiny laptop. That’s thanks to the 7.7-inch folding pOLED display.

When the controllers are connected to the sides, it looks a standard gaming handheld—with an outsized display—but you can unfold the top to expand it to an 11.6-inch screen. It’s a little top-heavy and awkward in this orientation, but you can set it up so that the lower half of the screen is your game, and the top half houses apps Discord. Better yet, you can remove the controllers and reorient the screen to landscape mode, then reattach the controllers for a big-screen portable gaming experience.

If it’s too top-heavy, you can swap to a horizontal orientation for a big-screen gaming experience.

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But wait, there’s more! Pop the controllers off and you can place the 11.6-inch screen on a separate keyboard cover, turning the whole thing into a compact Windows laptop. There’s a plate you can connect the controllers to, if you want to turn it into something that looks more a traditional console controller—almost exactly converting Nintendo’s Joy-Cons into a standard controller.

It all makes sense. Many gaming handhelds outside of Valve’s Steam Deck or Nintendo’s Switch 2 are Windows-powered, meaning you have access to a PC wherever you go. However, the Windows experience for anything outside of gaming on a handheld isn’t great (it’s not even all that great for gaming itself). Lenovo’s concept gives you the power to make your capable gaming machine into something that can also be used for light work (or play first-person shooters more precisely with a mouse and keyboard). No need to carry your laptop and gaming handheld around.

Finally, you can plop the screen on a keyboard cover and use it a traditional Windows laptop.

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Lenovo says this concept is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor, paired with a 48-watt-hour battery, and 32 GB of RAM. Alas, these specs don’t really matter if the Legion Go Fold never materializes into a real product.

A 3D PC With Magnetic, Physical Tools

Finally, there’s the Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept. There’s been a steady stream of 3D laptops and monitors over the last year or so, from Samsung’s Odyssey 3D to Lenovo’s Legion 9i gaming laptop, though these usually cater to gamers. Lenovo is marketing this new concept to creators and developers who create 3D assets instead—you won’t need to be tethered to a giant workstation or headset to view these assets.

The top half of the Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept supports the 2D to 3D conversion. The bottom half is a touchscreen display.

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Place these magnetic snap-on pads to trigger custom shortcuts in creative apps.

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This “laptop” doesn’t have a traditional keyboard attached to it. Instead, it’s comprised of two 16-inch Lenovo PureSight Pro Tandem OLED displays connected together, and the top half is what supports the 2D to 3D conversion—powered by Lenovo’s “own AI software.” You can also make use of the RGB camera for hand gestures to control the 3D object on the screen without a mouse or keyboard; for example, you can tilt your fist to rotate the object. This dual-screen system has a built-in kickstand at the bottom to elevate the screens for a more ergonomic experience.

But what’s more intriguing are Lenovo’s “snap-on pads” that you place on the lower touchscreen display. Think of these as physical items you magnetically place on the screen that then trigger specific shortcuts in your apps. If you’re using a creative app, for example, you can place the circular snap-on pad and have it open up a color wheel. It blends digital creation with a physical, tangible experience.

This Yoga Book Pro 3D is powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 7 processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070, and I can imagine that if it crossed the threshold from concept to reality, it’d cost a pretty penny.