Asus is bringing out some smart looking notebooks over the coming months. Among those on show at CES is the W5Fe, which has a fully operational 2.8in QVGA LCD screen built into its lid.

The display uses Sideshow, an operating system that can be switched on without booting up Vista. Owners can decide which data to save to Sideshow, such as music, pictures, text or video, which is then stored on flash memory. It can synchronise with Outlook, so that you can see email, contacts or your calendar.

Coming out in February, specs include a 1.3 megapixel web cam, 512MB DDR2 memory, a 160GB sata hard disk drive and a 12.1in WXGA screen. It runs an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.