Lenovo’s latest wacky concepts include a laptop with a built-in portable monitor

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

Lenovo never shies away from showing off wacky and weird concept laptops. We saw a PC with a transparent screenone with one rollable OLED screenA rotating screenand another with a flippy screen. At CES earlier this year, the company showed off a gaming laptop with a screen that expands at the touch of a button. Sometimes these concepts turn into real products on sale (often in limited quantity).

At MWC 2026, Lenovo presented three concepts. While it’s unclear if any of these will become true purchasable products, there’s some unique utility here and a glimpse into how computing experiences might change in the future.

A laptop with a built-in portable screen

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

The display 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, for example if you were giving a presentation at a meeting. Alternatively, you can remove that second screen, remove a hidden kickstand placed under the laptop, and magnetically attach it to the 14-inch screen for a traditional portable monitor experience. (You’ll need to connect it to the laptop via a USB-C cable in this orientation.)

If you don’t have the desk space for this orientation, you can always remove the keyboard from the base and insert the second display. It will automatically connect to the laptop via the pogo pins and you can use the Bluetooth keyboard to type on a dual screen setup that looks like the Asus ZenBook Duo. The whole system is an incredibly portable method for improving productivity on the go, and the laptop isn’t too thick or bulky.

Lenovo is also experimenting with modular ports. Want HDMI when traveling? Swap this port. Want USB-C instead? Pursue. You can even choose which side of the laptop each port module goes on. (Lenovo isn’t the first to introduce modular ports—Framework already offers such a thing on its repairable laptops.)

The whole concept seems polished enough that it could go into production quickly – at least, one can only hope.

A gaming laptop

Next we have the Legion Go Fold concept. Lenovo already does Legion Go Gaming Handheldsbut this unique iteration turns the console into a small laptop. This is thanks to the 7.7-inch foldable pOLED display.

When the controllers are attached to the sides, it looks like a standard gaming handheld, with an oversized screen, but you can fold out the top to expand it to an 11.6-inch screen. It’s a bit heavy and awkward in this orientation, but you can configure it so that the bottom half of the screen is your game and the top half hosts apps like 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.

But wait, there’s more! Remove the controllers 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 that you can connect the controllers to, if you want to turn it into something that looks more like a traditional console controller, almost exactly like converting Nintendo’s Joy-Cons into a standard controller.

This all makes sense. A lot gaming handhelds Aside from Valve’s Steam Deck or Nintendo’s Switch 2, they run on Windows, 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 that great for the game itself). Lenovo’s concept gives you the power to turn your capable gaming machine into something that can also be used for light work (or specifically playing first-person shooter games with a mouse and keyboard). No need to carry your laptop And portable game around.

Lenovo claims that 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 an actual product.

A 3D PC with magnetic and physical tools

Finally, there is the Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept. There was a constant flow of 3D laptops and monitors over the last year or so, Samsung’s 3D Odyssey has Lenovo’s Legion 9i gaming laptopalthough these are generally aimed at gamers. Lenovo is marketing this new concept to creators and developers who create 3D assets: you won’t need to be connected to a giant workstation or headset to view these assets.

This “laptop” does not have a traditional keyboard. Instead, it’s two 16-inch Lenovo PureSight Pro Tandem OLED displays connected together, and the top half is what supports 2D to 3D conversion, powered by Lenovo’s “own AI software.” You can also use 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 raise the screens for a more ergonomic experience.

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

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