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Tech giant wants to make dual screen smartwatches

The wearable features a small second screen that pokes down over the strap from below the watchface.

Lenovo's ne Magic View smartwatch

Lenovo is the biggest PC seller in the world, but it apparently that isn't nearly enough for the Chinese tech giant.

According to reports, at Lenovo Tech World event — the Chinese company's own Beijing-based conference — it showed off concepts for a dual-screen smartwatch and a laser projector smartphone, announcing its intent to move into new consumer tech markets currently occupied by competitors such as Apple.

The Magic View smartwatch demonstrated by the company is perhaps the weirder of the two prototypes.

The wearable, demonstrated on stage at the show, features a small second screen that pokes down over the strap from below the watchface.

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According to sources, Lenovo says the screen lets wearers see images blown up to 20 times the size possible on a regular watch face, solving the problem of the smartwatch's small screen and allowing for greater privacy in the process.

It's an interesting solution for limited screen size, but at this early stage in development the watch looks functional rather than beautiful, and the concept is not very practical — as demonstrated by Lenovo's on-stage presenter, users have to press the second screen close to their eye in order to see the expanded images.

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