Lenovo, the parent company and brand of Motorola, unveiled two concept devices in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress that could point to a new direction in the development of personal gadgets: a movable screen that unfolds vertically, giving the user more usable space. .theoretically. .

Lenovo introduced the Motorola RIZR phone model and the Lenovo ThinkBook laptop, both devices with movable screens that practically increase the diagonal of the display, providing more vertical space.

Motorola RIZR it can expand its screen (with the push of a button or, in certain applications, automatically) from 5 inches diagonally in the more classic, square format to 6.5 inches diagonally in ultra-tall format.

When the screen is folded, it practically rotates to the back, where it can act as an additional screen on the back of the phone.

ThnikBook laptop with a similar moving screen, it also increases the screen diagonal from 12 inches in 4:3 format (2024 x 1604) to 15.3 inches in ultra high format (2024 x 2368 pixels), which would be very useful in the case of certain content, where the user has to scroll a lot, work with some tables or view lines of code.

Company officials say that while these two devices are still in the concept stage, the company’s efforts are always focused on products that reach the market.