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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.
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, ...
