To make smartphones more usable, more PC-like, the company unveiled the Smart Cast concept product. Smart Cast supports a smartphone with built-in laser projector and infrared motion detector for new forms of interaction. Users can project a large virtual touch screen onto a table to type with a virtual keyboard and work with productivity apps. Using the projector alone, users can transform their wall into a movie theatre to watch videos, give a presentation or play games. For a video chat, they can project content onto the wall while viewing different content simultaneously on their smartphone screen. At Tech World, pianist Lang Lang demonstrated the possibilities of Smart Cast with a rendition of The Entertainer played on the virtual keyboard with the full size sheet music displayed from the smartphone's projector.
Lenovo also demonstrated its Smart Shoes concept, part of its expansion on the Internet of Things. The smart shoes display a person’s mood on its screen as well as track and analyze fitness data such as heart beats and caloric consumption and provide maps and directions to places.
Lenovo also provided more details on the ShenQi, a subsidiary set up in 2014 to develop its mobile business. ShenQi began operating under an internet-based business model in China in April. The company will focus on developing wearables and products for smart transportation, the smart home and smart offices. At Tech World, ShenQi showed slim power banks, 3D printers that can print food and high-precision objects such as a tiny dual-track outdoor sound box and a smart home control centre based on Wi-Fi. The company is also exploring emerging fields such as robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, Lenovo said.
At the conference, Lenovo also unveiled its new logo. This marks the company's new focus on 'smart connecitivity' and its recent acquisitions of the Motorola mobile phone business and IBM server activities.
