Lenovo’s Tech World 2016 event is going on right now, where the company’s new flagship Moto Z smartphone is expected to be announced. But before it gets to its concrete product launches, Lenovo took a moment to tease a pair of tantalizing prototypes: a phone that bends around your wrist and a tablet that folds in half. The phone is very much in keeping with all the other bendable “wrist phone” concepts we’ve seen, snapping around the wrist like a weirdly enormous and awkward bracelet. The cool thing is that the screen, at least, does work, judging from Lenovo’s quick demo.
The accompanying tablet can best be described as a reverse Courier. Rather than folding inward like a book, it folds out, giving the user two displays when folded: one on the front and another on the back. Lenovo teased it as essentially acting like a phablet (and conducting calls) while folded and serving the typical 10-inch tablet uses otherwise.
You can check out both if you rewind the live stream of Lenovo’s keynote over on YouTube, and we’ll bring you some first-hand photos of both immediately after the end of the presentation.
