Lenovo's rollable ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 grows its 14-inch OLED to 16.7 inches on demand

For years the laptop was a fixed trade-off: the more screen, the heavier the bag. Lenovo's answer, unveiled at CES 2025, was the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, described by the company as the world's first rollable-display AI PC. A flexible OLED panel hidden inside the chassis unrolls vertically when the user presses a key or makes a hand gesture, growing the display from 14 to 16.7 inches and adding split-screen and virtual-display workspace.

The machine began as a concept Lenovo had shown two years earlier, and turning it into a product was an experience-design problem as much as an engineering one. Lenovo's UXD team joined early workshops in 2024 to define real user scenarios before engineering decisions were locked: when vertical expansion actually improves productivity, how fast the roll must feel to avoid seeming mechanical, and what interaction model is intuitive on first use. They helped shape requirements for interaction logic, mechanical timing, and safety thresholds, with coding and multitasking as reference workloads.

The result shipped at US$3,499 in 2025, with reviewers framing it as a laptop 'that can make itself grow' and second monitors becoming optional. Lenovo's Chief Experience Officer wrote that the rollable platform was not a one-off: insights from the first product fed directly into the 2026 ThinkPad Rollable XD and Legion Pro Rollable concepts, each refining how an expanding display should work in real workflows.