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digg > origami

Feb 27, 2006 7:57AM PST

If you been watching digg.com, than you may have seen the origami. Their was video up on Digital Kitchen's website (that I guess they made). I watched it the other day, but it looks as if they took it down. But than their was another digg article about someone who had posted the video on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/?v=rV1WGDW37c0

digg articles:
http://digg.com/technology/Microsoft_Origami_Video_and_Pics_
http://digg.com/technology/Origami_-_youtube_got_it_before_DK_took_it_down

Ok so now that we know exactly what it is, I think I'll start by saying it looks kinda lame. I like the commercial though.

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I personally like it
Feb 27, 2006 8:04AM PST

I think the product is cool, but, isn't that what the PocketPC was suppose to do? Well, it can, but there is always that data plan that you have to pay for which is rediculously expensive. Thankfully, mine is just a plain old (iPaq 2215) PocketPC and doesn't have a phone..it would be a waste of a phone.

Also, I really like the commercial, very well produced, in my opinion. It gave me a that warm & fuzzy feeling, like Microsoft commercials usually do Wink

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my thoughts
Feb 27, 2006 8:56AM PST

I personally think that it is just the wrong size. It's too big to use in the same manner as a PDA, but too small for use as a full-fledged tablet. If you start thinking about how some of the people in the video were whipping it out, you can kinda see that it should be somewhat smaller.
The point where you see the attached keyboard was kinda neat, folding up to a package about the size of a small textbook.
Out of curiousity: anybody else notice how choppy Halo was running?

Anyways, that's how I feel. Neat ideas, but seems to be lacking in implementation.

-Ryan

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Looks pretty nifty!
Feb 27, 2006 9:13AM PST

I wonder if it will run OS X ... Wink

-Terry

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Digital Kitchen
Mar 5, 2006 2:21PM PST

You know, I probably would have questioned the commercial more, but I actually saw it on Digg soon enough to be able to watch it on the Digital Kitchen site. That (to me) says that it's authentic.

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oh

it's absolutely authentic. you don't just "whip up" a commercial of that quality, it would take weeks and a lot of money.

i agreed about the size issue, until i thought about it. most pdas are too small to do any REAL work on (i know, i have one) and most tablets are still too heavy to cart around. even something like the X41 thinkpad are too much to really just pull out and start working on in some of those situations the commercial showed.

i think it might be a happy medium. you heard it here first, folks.... veronica might be ok with a microsoft product. if apple had annouced something like this last week, i'd already own it.

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Wow ...
Mar 6, 2006 3:17AM PST

V is interested in a Microsoft product.

Snakes will be on planes.

God help us all.

Wink

-Terry