[Gadgets] MWC 2024: The Best & Most Brilliant Gadgets Unveiled At Mobile World Congress

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Every year in February, Barcelona becomes the playing field of not just its iconic football club but also of several mobile phone companies that converge on the Spanish city for one of the biggest tech events of the world, the Mobile World Congress (MWC). For these few days, the city is the world's unofficial mobile capital, with brands vying with each other to showcase their best and brightest products and ideas. MWC 2024 was no different, with dozens of products, services and concepts being unveiled in Barcelona.

The most spectacular product seen this year in Barcelona was not a mobile phone. It was something that actually might never hit the market, but it was so cool that folks were lining up to see it. This was Lenovo's ThinkBook Transparent Notebook. It is pretty much your standard notebook, except that its 17.3-inch microLED display is quite transparent. The display is transparent when the pixels are turned off and becomes opaque when you switch them on. That's not all, the 'keyboard' of the notebook is also a touch surface that you can sketch and write on if need be. It is super cool, but what is the utility? Well, rather limited, to be honest (why would we generally like to look at the world through a notebook display?), although you can literally look at something in front of you and sketch it, and when in transparent mode, the notebook can identify objects that you can see through that display. The display is also only 720p in resolution, a far cry from the super-high resolutions you see on many notebooks. Lenovo has no plans of making this product commercially yet, but it certainly has a wow factor to it, although, at the time of writing, it is more about style than substance.

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