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What is Microsoft's Origami Project?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friday-fan-fiction dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rumors are running around the web about a new Microsoft gadget codenamed Origami that will be unveiled on March 2nd. Speculation can be found on Designtastesgood, Scobleizer, and Thatedeguy, and WindowsForDevices has a description and photos of a prototype Origami device built by National Semiconductor 2001. Anybody out there know more about this new device?"

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  1. Cancel Each Other Out by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Interesting
    An Anonymous Reader submits a story to Slashdot in order to hype a previously under-reported Microsoft project.

    Slashdot readers slashdot the site rendering it unreachable by the masses at large.

    Net result, one effect cancels out the other.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Origami "Commercial" by starving4clarity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This past semester I interned with a motion graphics / live action production house DigitalKitchen (title sequences for Six Feet Under, Rescue Me, Nip / Tuck, Ghost Whisperer, etc). They've done a lot of "commercial" work for Microsoft, including one on the "Origami" project. You can watch the spot at Digital Kitchen's website. Navigation is a pain, but click on the logo >> Enter >> Work >> Brandtheatre and it's the top video. Enjoy.