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

The Lenovo Smart Motion Concept is a motorized laptop stand that tracks your face.

by Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Sep 5, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

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Laptop stands are a dime a dozen, but this one adapts to you. It also “dances.”

Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021.

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.)

<em>The stand requires its own power source.</em>

<em>Lenovo’s app played music for this dance routine.</em>

<em>The tilting back and forth can help with posture, both good and bad.</em>

<em>It’s a chunky stand. I was not able to pick it up because Lenovo’s other early prototype had stopped working.</em>

<em>A bunch of ports, including HDMI, two DisplayPort, one USB-C, two USB-A, and ethernet.</em>

<em>The rollable laptop was mounted, which you can imagine gives this stand even more movement / height.</em>

<em>Within the stand are extra fans for added cooling.</em>

<em>The AI Ring Lenovo had on hand was too big to work with any of my fingers (or anyone else present).</em>

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The stand requires its own power source.

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

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