Lenovo has debuted a new Android tablet that’s easily one of the more intriguing two-for-one specials I’ve ever seen.

Dubbed the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, the 13-inch device offers all the usual bells and whistles you might expect from a high-end tablet computer: an advanced edition of the Android operating system, a high-speed processor, and high-quality camera.

Where the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro differentiates itself, however, comes on the outside: Lenovo has crammed a miniature projector into the side of the device, so you can project the screen of the tablet onto a nearby wall.

It sounds like a gimmick. But after checking out this tablet at a meeting with Lenovo, I became genuinely intrigued by the possibilities of a tablet with a projector.

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Like the company’s previous Yoga tablets, the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro sports a thin body that gradually grows into a large cylinder along the tablet’s base. The look is meant to ape that of a magazine with one side folded over.

That bulky cylinder makes the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro thick at its base, but it also makes holding the tablet in portrait mode a bit more comfortable than a normal flat slate, like your typical iPad or Kindle Fire.

The cylinder also houses the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro’s massive 9,600-mAh battery, which Lenovo says should get you a whopping 15 hours of usage. Compared with the 10 hours of usage Apple says to expect with the iPad Air, that’s a big difference. (The Yoga Tablet 2 Pro is also much, much larger than the iPad Air.)

Projector mode

The Yoga Tablet 2 Pro’s cylindrical base is also where you’ll find its projector. For something that’s been slapped on the side of a tablet, the Tablet 2 Pro’s projector offers a surprisingly clear picture. I watched a video with the projector in a dark room and was surprised at how clear the image looked.

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Lenovo says the projector creates an image with an 854 × 480 pixel resolution at 50 inches, which is lower than your average 20-inch TV. I also noticed that the projector’s image was a bit dim. That could change when the device hits stores, though; Lenovo says it’s still perfecting the projector.

Thanks to the Tablet 2 Pro’s huge power plant, you can expect to get up to three to four hours of playback with the projector alone.

You can enable projector mode by either long-pressing the dedicated button on the side of the Tablet 2 or selecting Projector from the slate’s quick settings menu.

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