This 14-inch laptop has a screen that unrolls to 17 inches
Lenovo showcased the ThinkBook Project Swan, a concept laptop featuring a flexible OLED screen that rolls horizontally to expand from 14 to 17 inches. The device aims to provide a portable form factor that offers a larger workspace when needed.
Why it matters
Rollable display technology represents a potential future for portable computing, offering a balance between mobility and screen real estate.
Lenovo’s latest rollable concept, announced at IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop with a screen that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches.
Rollable screens are nothing new for Lenovo. The company has shown off several concepts and even launched a real one last year (and it was pretty great). But Project Swan seems a little more restrained than that wild vertically expanding ThinkBook Plus Gen 6.
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Rolling from 14 to 17 inches.
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