Filed under: Hardware, Microsoft
Origami Project: A new mystery from Microsoft
The question of the day
is, "What's origamiproject.com?" All we know is this: It belongs to Microsoft and appears to be a part of some viral marketing
campaign. Currently the web site has nothing but an ambiguous AT&T-esque message that says, "Hello. Do you know
me? Do you know what I can do? And where I can go? Or how I can change your life? You will. Learn more on
3.2.06..." There are "Week 1," "Week 2," and "Week 3" buttons, but currently only
Week 1 (the above message) is enabled. Some fingers are pointing to a similarly-named handheld prototype that
National Semiconductor demoed at COMDEX in 2001,
but I'm skeptical. Conveniently, origamiproject.com has an RSS feed that'll presumably notify you when "Week
2" is enabled. What do you think Microsoft is up to?[Via Digg]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
