12 Cool Touchscreen Gadgets That Aren’t Tablets Or Phones

Once the protect of smartphones and different smaller devices, touchscreens now grace each floor and tech area of interest possible, with combined outcomes. When touchscreens first appeared on computer systems and telephones, they had been attempting to make complicated gadgets simpler to function. After the iPhone and different improvements, touchscreen know-how proved intuitive and sensible. 

However, since then, engineers requested what else they might touchscreen-ify, and the world was off to the races. Today, we now have touchscreens in each room. For the kitchen, there are double-door fridges that show recipes and your calendar. In the lavatory, touchscreen mirrors have a look at your pores and skin and level out all of the imperfections. Elsewhere, there are tables with screens for collaborative workspaces. Some gadgets may even flip non-touchscreen surfaces (like your limbs, for one) into touchscreens. There’s one firm that is making a complete touchscreen-enabled wall, as a result of the sky is the restrict. 

Some of those touchscreen devices are fairly modern and clear up some (admittedly area of interest) issues. Others exist purely as a result of the R&D division might, not essentially ought to. The gadgets mentioned under display each the flexibility of touchscreens and the business’s obsession with implementing them.

First up, we now have a comparatively tame entry: the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold. We cannot actually name it a laptop computer, neither is it a pill, however relatively, a cross between the 2. For starters, the keyboard is totally removable from the chassis of the pc that homes the display, and expenses independently of the gadget, too. The display is a FOLED panel, which measures 17.3 inches and has a decision of 2560 x 1920, making it a 2.5K panel. The Zenbook has an Intel Core i7-1250U processor, 16 GB RAM, 1TB storage, and an built-in GPU.

While that spec sheet is kind of spectacular for any productiveness laptop computer, the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold’s actual social gathering piece is its folding display. Just just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and different flip telephones, the whole laptop computer display can fold or be propped up in an “L” form. This permits for numerous dual-screen configurations — most of which we noticed no actual want for. There is already a variety of Asus laptops with twin screens for individuals who want that on the go, however the Zenbook 17 Fold could be very cool, nonetheless.

At CES 2026, Lenovo debuted laptop computer shows that could possibly be rolled and unrolled. The approach the ThinkPad Rollable XD is meant to work is by extending an everyday ThinkPad laptop computer display to about double the vertical peak. When the prolonged show is just not wanted, it wraps across the again of the display.

The facet ratio is a bit funny-looking, however we’re certain that some area of interest operators can discover use in it. The display’s glass is meant to be fairly powerful, developed in collaboration with Corning, makers of Gorilla Glass. The ThinkPad model of the rollable display can be purported to assist some superior contact and voice-command features, however we’ll have to attend for a manufacturing laptop computer to really gauge the gadget’s capabilities. 

Lenovo is becoming its rollable display to its Legion gaming laptop computer vary, and in a a lot better type issue, in our opinion. At CES, the idea Legion Rollable laptop computer was a 13.3-inch unit that would prolong its display to nearly 16 inches, which is extremely cool, because you’re principally getting 16 inches of display in a 13-inch laptop computer physique. Furthermore, the Legion display expands horizontally, relatively than vertically like on the ThinkPad, that means it is (arguably) extra user-friendly.

This gadget is a pc and a desk rolled into one. Microsoft was utilizing the Surface nameplate for this desk factor about 5 years earlier than the “regular” Microsoft Surface pill laptop launched in 2012. 

Though the launch title was Surface, it might be christened “PixelSense” when the pill debuted, although we’ll name it PixelSense for readability. At the time, the PixelSense desk was fairly modern, with the power to tell apart between not solely multi-touch gestures (which we have develop into fairly used to), but additionally multi-touch gestures from a number of palms on the identical time on the desk. Remember, that is know-how from the 2000s.

Later, Microsoft licensed the PixelSense OS to Samsung, which produced the {hardware} and offered it because the Samsung SUR40 desk. The tech is discontinued and out of date, although it might be fairly attention-grabbing to see what a contemporary model would appear to be.

The Reactable is one other touchscreen desk meant for collaborative use, however this gadget distinguishes itself from the PixelSense with its round design and musical function. In truth, the Reactable is a musical instrument, and it has been some time since somebody’s tried to make a brand new a kind of.

The brainchild of college graduates, the Reactable operates by having customers place totally different blocks in several orientations at numerous spots on the desk. The desk display detects when these cube-shaped blocks are touching it and performs again the sound ensuing from consumer enter. The desk was not a industrial success, but it surely will need to have felt like one thing out of a science fiction novel when it launched within the 2010s. 

The Surface Hub is a digital whiteboard that’s mounted to a wheeled stand or connected to a wall. It is a succesful gadget with quite a few options, together with Microsoft Teams integration, a digicam, and assist for 2 particular pens concurrently. Additionally, the advertising and marketing emphasizes collaboration throughout borders and time zones within the advertising and marketing of the product, which is effective for worldwide companies.

Windows 11 is obtainable, however solely the Enterprise and Pro variations — not the price range Windows 11 Home. But then once more, with a purchase order worth of $8,999; it is unlikely that the goal market will care a lot about that.

The Samsung Family Hub is a fridge with a large, TV-sized display slotted into one of many doorways. Modern variations of the fridge are supplied in two depths within the U.S., with these being counter-depth (roughly 29 inches) and full-depth, or roughly 36 inches. 

The unit can be personalized by means of Samsung’s bespoke fridge program, which lets consumers combine and match the colours and supplies. The Samsung Family Hub is organized in a four-door configuration, with the freezer unit on the backside. The display is mounted to the upper-right door and is 21.5 inches in dimension with a built-in digicam. 

Reviews say that the OS might do a greater job integrating with different sensible dwelling gadgets, and that the app choice is a bit limiting. That final bit is necessary as a result of you may neither add nor take away apps from the fridge — you get what you are given, finish of. Making issues extra sophisticated is the vertical show, which resembles an especially outsized cellphone.

Let’s now check out the one different kitchen gadget on our listing — the Thermomix TM7. This gadget is actually a many-things-in-one cooker, mixer, whisk, and steamer. There is a base gadget, sort of resembling a scorching plate, to which numerous attachments are added. These particular attachments embrace a steaming basket and an exclusive-to-Thermomix instrument known as the “Varoma.” The latter operates at a temperature described as “Varoma Temperature” — no matter meaning — and is meant to assist in wholesome cooking. 

Other attachments embrace a spatula, a butterfly whisk, and a typical mixing knife to show the factor right into a blender. The touchscreen on the TM7 is situated on the entrance of the bottom plate and has over 100,000 recipes on it. It’ll even information the consumer by means of preparation.

The firm claims that the Thermomix TM7 is equal to twenty totally different kitchen gadgets, and it actually seems that approach, however since we have not had hands-on expertise with the product, we won’t affirm this. The TM7 additionally helps some superior cooking modes, similar to sous vide and caramelization.

The OmniTouch, produced by a particular division at Microsoft, along with Carnegie Mellon, is really insane to consider. While it is not strictly a touchscreen, it’s a wearable piece of tech that turns something you contact right into a touchscreen. The gadget works through the use of movement sensors coupled with a small digicam that detects the motion of your hand and fingers and interprets it into enter. 

As you progress your hand, a small projector beams the show onto the floor you level the OmniTouch at. If you are utilizing a calculator, for instance, the calculator shall be projected onto a floor, be {that a} wall, chair, desk, and even your individual physique. You can “click” on numerous components of that projection to work together with it.

Aside from being cool, the tech has fairly first rate software potential in fields the place regular touchscreens will not do – the place gloves and different touchscreen-unfriendly gadgets are required, for instance. For now, although, the product stays a analysis mission with restricted industrial backing.

While the OmniTouch can flip any floor right into a small touchscreen, the Sony Xperia Touch Projector takes that idea and turns it as much as 11. This 2-pound gadget claims to show any wall right into a touchscreen-capable show. 

Amongst a complete suite of different sensors, the Xperia Touch has a GPS, barometer, and a humidity sensor, and will get its energy over USB. It has 32 GB of inbuilt storage, expandable with a MicroSD card. However, being launched within the 2010s meant that it got here with DDR3 RAM, which is exhibiting its age in comparison with higher-speed DDR5 sticks. 

The Xperia Touch additionally comes outfitted with an inbuilt digicam and stereo audio system, together with WiFi, Bluetooth, and Miracast. The system runs Android and may mission as much as 80 inches, or about six-and-three-quarter ft. What’s the purpose of this factor, you ask? Well, we do not know both, but it surely’s certain as hell one of many coolest and most modern issues to come back out of Sony in a very long time.

One of the few merchandise on our listing you could nonetheless get your palms on (brand-new) in 2026 is the MBUX Hyperscreen. It is a 141 cm curved show that includes a automotive’s infotainment show with behind-the-wheel gauge cluster info, together with a passenger infotainment display. This “Hyperscreen” is unique to Mercedes-Benz, and solely a choose few fashions get it. 

The touchscreens embrace the primary infotainment show and the rear passengers’ screens. The digital gauge cluster is simply a typical show. The MBUX Hyperscreen is subtle, however they value tens of hundreds of {dollars}. We even have combined feelings on the screen-ification of vehicles, however Mercedes appears to have pulled it off with out overdoing it, for the second.

HiMirror is a brilliant mirror with a vary of high-tech options. It is a sq. type issue with one half of the gadget being the precise mirror, and the opposite half being a touchscreen show that’s principally a small pill that’s embedded into the mirror. This pill can slide out and in of the housing to scale back the footprint of the gadget, although we think about most customers simply go away it within the open configuration. 

There are additionally LEDs situated at numerous spots on the bezel that illuminate your face, and the underside (or aspect – relying on the way you angle the gadget) has an space for controlling these LEDs. You can obtain YouTube, Spotify, and different apps on the HiMirror Slide, and there may be additionally a slide-out digicam inbuilt. The pill aspect of the HiMirror runs on Android as a substitute of a customized OS, and critiques say it’s often laggy. HiMirror ceased operations on the finish of 2024.

Here is one other gadget that is an idea relatively than a product. The LG Stretchable display debuted in 2022. It was 12 inches in dimension and had a show decision of 100 pixels per inch, which is not precisely earth-shattering. However, the display was elastic and could possibly be pulled each horizontally and vertically. It might even be twisted. 

This flexible, stretchy tech could possibly be utilized in all the pieces from style to healthcare and even the navy. The unique model of the display proven in 2022 wasn’t a touchscreen, however the follow-up mannequin a 12 months later was reportedly touch-sensitive. At the time of launch, the LG stretchable display was probably the most stretchable display on the earth, in a position to elongate its unique footprint by about 50%. Impressively, even in its stretched configuration, the display is claimed to keep up its decision, even when the decision is not that spectacular to start with.