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Microsoft's Origami Project revealed
Last week we mentioned origamiproject.com, a mysterious bit of viral marketing belonging to Microsoft. A lot has turned up since then, and it's been pretty much established as fact that Origami is a new "ultramobile lifestyle PC" from Microsoft and not the five-year-old prototype of the same name from National Semiconductor. Microsoft plans to unveil Origami on Thursday (which makes me wonder what they're going to do with "Week 2" and "Week 3" at origamiprojec.com) and has confirmed that the above images from Engadget are authentic but are of an "early prototype" and are about a year old. Furthermore, Microsoft says what they'll show on Thursday will be a "technology" and an actual project, so it's anybody guess when we'll actually be able to buy an Origami PC.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Azazello said 1:32AM on 2-28-2006
I hate to say this MS's attempt at the PDA market, it'll probably bite me in the a** later, but,
YAAAAWWN! ZZZZZZZZzzzzz
{The video is kinda funky though... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV1WGDW37c0}
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Shichae said 6:56PM on 2-28-2006
Video of the MS Origami can be viewed here at:
http://www.pdamexico.net/content/view/2032/2/
Kudos to Kevin 2.0 for finding this one, and pointing the way!!!!!!
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Shichae said 7:14PM on 2-28-2006
Oops, should have posted a direct link to the video. Here you go!
http://www.pdamexico.net/abe/videos/msorigami.mpg
Cheers
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