Walking into a Lenovo showroom can sometimes feel like I accidentally stepped into a taping of the 1990s sitcom Family Matters . I’m there to see the standard, Carl Winslow-level laptops, the tried and true dependable designs. Then steps in Steve Urkel. Behind his technicolor suspenders, he’s holding a giant metal monstrosity he’s calling a head-tracking laptop stand along with a notebook that flips from landscape to portrait. “Did I do that?” the Urkel side of Lenovo says, snickering from the corner.
Yes, that is indeed a thing Lenovo is working on. The laptop maker’s wacky world of concept devices, announced at IFA 2025 , now includes the Smart Motion Concept, a large metal stand that uses your notebook’s built-in camera and microphone and head-tracking software to keep the comput