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A look at Origami's UI
We prefer to leave the gadget news coverage to the pros so we haven't been covering every little development in Microsoft's no-longer-mysterious Origami "ultramobile" handheld tablet PC buzz campaign, but we are user interface nerds, so Engadget's coverage of Origami's novel "Touch Pack Interface" piqued our interest. The core of the Origami Touch Pack Interface is a virtual keyboard in the form of two quarter-circles that the user controls with his thumbs. It looks pretty cool, but will it work? Or should we preemptively add "Origami thumb" to our medical vernacular?
For lots more Origami info and lots of photos of Origami devices from Samsung, Asus, and more, head over to Engadget, where the CeBIT coverage is fast and furious. This post is a good place to start.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
