Lenovo introduced the warmth at CES 2024 with a new-ish snap-on expertise that permits you to connect helpful devices onto the lid. “New-ish” is the operative phrase right here as a result of Magic Bay — the title of the attachable tech — is already available in the market, permitting you to snap-on a 4K webcam to a laptop computer like this 12 months’s ThinkBook 16p Gen 4 with ease.

Nonetheless, Lenovo took it one step additional this 12 months, testing out wacky new Magic Bay ideas that had us scratching our heads.

‘Snap on’ a small pill

The upcoming ThinkBook 13x Gen 14, that includes Magic Bay, is the laptop computer I used to check these swappable equipment inside Lenovo’s CES 2024 suite.

The Magic Bay tech makes use of pogo pins that energy its snap-on devices with USB-C 3.0. As such, Lenovo has been experimenting with “add-ons” that customers could discover to be helpful for his or her workflow, together with this weird tiny pill that humorously seems like a parasite that latched onto its laptop computer host.

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Once more, that is only a idea, so it did not work easily. After snapping it on, the laptop computer took a number of seconds too lengthy to “acknowledge” the pill as its secondary monitor. Nonetheless, even when the kinks had been ironed out, and this Magic Bay pill accent rolled out to market, how might this be helpful?

‘Snap on’ a robotic companion

Funnily sufficient, the robotic companion could also be extra sensible than the pill.

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After I snapped on the robofriend to the 13x Gen 14, it did not do a lot however smile and wink. Nonetheless, I would think about {that a} extra polished variant could be extra interactive, giving me the additional nudge I must plow by means of tedious work.

‘Snap on’ a fan

Hear me out. A snap-on fan is sensible.

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You may plop a fan in entrance of you with out worrying about your laptop computer obstructing your air circulate — you are getting cool wind delivered on to you, out of your laptop computer’s lid to your face.

‘Snap on’ a mirror and mini ring mild

One other idea I performed about with is the snap-on mirror. On prime of supplying you with the choice to take a look at your self once in a while, it emanates a small ring mild, too. It is a dream come true for vainglorious customers.

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Different weird ideas Lenovo is ruminating over is an aromatherapy snap-on, permitting you to place important oils right into a cartridge that may dispense healthful fumes. I am unsure if that is for me, however maybe it could appease the wellness, new-agey crowd.

The ThinkBook 13x Gen 14, full of its Magic Bay tech, needs to be accessible in Q1. It is set to come back with as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 CPU, as much as 32GB of RAM, and as much as a 2TB SSD.