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Title: Lenovo Unveils an Attachable AI Agent 'Companion' for Their Laptops

Link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/03/02/05...

As the Mobile World Conference begins in Spain, Lenovo brought a new
attachable accessory for their laptops - an AI agent. CNET reports: The
little circular module perches on the top of your Lenovo laptop display,
attached via the magnetic Magic Bay on the rear. The module is home to an
adorable animated companion called Tiko, who you can interact with via text
or voice... [I]t can start and stop your music, open a web page for you or
answer a question. You can also interact with it by using emoji. Give it a
book emoji, for example, and it will pop on its glasses and sit reading with
you while you work... The company wants to sell the Magic Bay accessory later
this year - although it doesn't know exactly when, or how much it will cost.
It even comes with a timer (for working in Pomodoro-style intervals) - but
Lenovo has also created another "concept" AI companion that CNET describes as
"a kind of stationary tabletop robot, not dissimilar to the Pixar lamp, but
with an orb for a head." With a combination of cameras, microphones and
projectors, the AI Workmate can undertake a variety of tasks, including
helping you generate and display presentations or turn your written work or
art into a digital asset... It's robotic head swivelled around and projected
the slides onto the wall next to me. Lenovo created a video to show this
"next-generation AI work companion" - with animated eyes - "designed to
transform how modern professionals interact with their workspace." It bridges
the physical and digital worlds - capturing handwritten notes, recognizing
gestures, summarizing tasks, and proactively helping you stay ahead of your
day. The moment you sit down, Lenovo AI Workmate greets you, surfaces
priority tasks, and keeps your work organized without switching apps or
losing context. From turning sketches into presentations to projecting
information for instant collaboration, [it] brings on-device AI intelligence
directly to your desk - secure, responsive, and always ready... It's not just
software. It's a smarter way to work. It looks like Lenovo once considered
naming it "AI Sphere" (since that name still appears in its description on
YouTube). Lenovo also showed another "concept" laptop idea that PC Magazine
called "futuristic": The ThinkBook Modular AI PC looks like a traditional
laptop at first glance, but a second, removable screen fastens onto the lid.
You can swap that screen onto the keyboard deck (in place of the keyboard,
which can then be used wirelessly), or use it alongside the laptop as a
portable monitor, attached via an included cable.... While Lenovo is still
working on this device, and it's very much in the concept phase, it feels
like one of its best-thought-out prototypes, one likely to make it to store
shelves at some point. Another "concept" laptop is Lenovo's Yoga Book Pro 3D
Concept, ofering directional backlight and eye-tracking technology for the
illusion of 3D (playing slightly different images to each of your eyes). It
offers gesture control for 3D models, two OLED displays, and some magical
"snap-on pads" which, when laid on the display - make the GUI appear on the
screen for a new control menu to "provide quick-access shortcuts for
adjusting lighting, viewing angle, and tone".

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