This stand can automatically lift, tilt, and turn your laptop toward you

Lenovo’s Smart Motion Concept laptop stand, announced at IFA 2025, automatically raises and lowers itself and turns and tilts to position your laptop at an ergonomic eye level. It’s a lot like an amped-up Apple Center Stage webcam, but the whole laptop adapts to you and your posture. That’s basically what it felt like when it was demoed for me at a recent preview event, where it tracked me side to side and up and down around a table. In another demo, it did a “dance” where it ran through its full range of motion to some cheesy music. (More Elaine than any TikTok-level choreography.) [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0001.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0003.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0004.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0005.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0006.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0007.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0008.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0009.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0010.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0011.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0012.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257842_Lenovo_Smart_Motion_Concept_stand_IFA2025_ADiBenedetto_0013.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] The stand’s other features include built-in cooling fans and a USB hub. The USB connection allows Lenovo’s software to use the webcam to keep the user in frame. In addition to face tracking, the stand is controllable with a remote or through hand gestures while wearing Lenovo’s AI Ring — another concept it showed back at MWC. The Smart Motion stand was born from Lenovo’s Auto Twist concept, a laptop that turned its screen to face you. Lenovo envisions that, should a product with this tech ever launch, part of its role could be to meet accessibility needs in a variety of laptops. Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge