Submitted by With speculation flying about what ‘fun new products‘ Apple plans to announce next week, from video iPods to DVR-enabled Mac minis, Microsoft has its own surprise up its sleeve. The web is abuzz with guesses as to what the Redmond company plans to unveil at origamiproject.com on March 2nd. The site, registered by Microsoft and ‘discovered’ early this week, provides few hints. A Flash animation pops up three questions: ‘do you know what I can do? Or where I can go? Or how I can change your life?’ It ends with the text, ‘Learn more on 3.2.06’.
Follow the following link, it will popup the main page, click on Work > BrandTheatre > Microsoft Origami:
http://www.d-kitchen.com/launch_center.htm
And away you go…!
looks like the nokia 770 internet tablet …
…the good ol’ “Where do you want to go taday?”
Looks like a cross between a newton and a PMP if you ask me
to me it looks like a nokia 770 with a keyboard…
Hi,
in the white case it looks a little bit like a toy
But: Microsoft can make such things become very big. E.g.: The microsoft handwriting recognition is much better than the one on the Nokia n770. And with better interaction with Microsoft windows this product can be really successful. I’m curious about it.
Mike
who needs handwriting?
get a bluetooth frogpad, they would be idiots if they dont make a 770 driver available. or maybe linux allready have support for it? what do i know…
If you combine the knowledge that it’s just a tablet with the website, it looks like Microsoft is trying to hype up something marginally interesting which noone pushed firmly before.
But it doesn’t look like anything a Nintendo DS with modded software can’t do
The history of MS hype gave me one reaction after hearing about this for the first time a few days ago; *yawn*
and deliver it in 2008?
I assume it will be consumer focused, so it probably won’t replace my PDA.
Ok, anyone get just a bit overly creeped by the whole
“Do you know how I can change your life” thing?
Just struck me as a big brother AI thing. Dunno. Watch it again.
It’s kinda like “Where do you want to be steered today?”
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Anyone seen John Connor?
Edited 2006-02-26 16:53
The web isn’t abuzz. The general feeling is “let’s just wait for a week instead of going crazy”. However, for some reason a few sites have gone absolutely bananas over this.
“Linux: Where do you want to go today?
Microsoft: You’re coming with us!”
Looks like an evolution of the WinCE-based displays that would also work as portable PCs when disconnect from the main CPU (I can’t recall the name right now…). This will probably have a great connectivity with Microsoft’s OS and media technologies (portable players, medias centers and media formats).
This is not a competitor to the Nokia 770. The 770 is designed to be a small form factor mobile device (PDA-ish). Origami is a tablet PC, you can’t put it in your pocket.
It’s really funny how they tried to make the Origami look portable. <Kid playing video games gets up to leave>. “This thing is to fscking big to put anywhere, I guess I’ll just carry it in my hand. What convenience!”
The only use for this thing is for surfing when on the couch or something. Nice to do but it won’t be worth it at the price tag they are going to be setting. It will flop and slowly fade away. Microsoft has always had a disconnect with consumers.
I agree that the ting is way too big for the stuff it’s being used for in that movie.. It’s just a tablet-PC.
Well, that was black, but am I the only one reminded of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, mark two?
http://thumb.shutterstock.com/photos/display_pic_with_logo/99/99,10…
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who wants to bet this will be there product to take on the $100.00 PC?
I wish I had that guys cowboy hat! I would like to take a crap in it 🙂
Tom
This is not going to be any where near $100. My guess is at least $700
Well maybe not $100.00 …but there is no way this toy will be $700.00! it’s no more than a PSP with windows CE on it.. My money goes on a cheap, verrrry cheap price to take on the $100.00 laptop. Do you think MS is just going to sit on there hands and let a 100 million cheap laptops get spread all over this planet with LINUX on them? They will take the loss just to spread there warz.
I like this little gadget. Seems to agree with my geek factor. You know the price is going to be something outrageous which will stop most people from purchasing it. But darn I can’t wait to play with one of these in the store.
How appropriate for a paper tiger! Almost as good as “Urge”, that proposed MSFT service that would allow you to download videos of stone rap stars and wasted teenagers.
A day after the AAPL event? Sound like the poor deluded MSFT marketing dim-wits are trying to upstage Apple.
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