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Project Origami Update: Coy and Cryptic Are Their Ways
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posted by: Chris Martin
date posted: 06:07 AM Thu Mar 2nd, 2006
last revision: 12:24 PM Thu Mar 2nd, 2006



Click to read.It is, indeed, the day after yesterday. 3.2.06, and Microsoft\'s project Origami has been injected with more cryptic phrases and creepy background noises on their website. Of course, like their ourcolony.net and Ilovebees.com marketting strategies before, we aren\'t likely to get any real information about the product until weeks before it\'s released. Still, this is what we get for 3.2.06...

This is the text on the new flash animation amid stills of differing locales (described in parentheses):


\"hi there\" (blue intro background)

\"wondering where to find me?\"

\"I am here\" (picture of cityscape looms)

\"and here\" (green grass and tall trees)

\"way up here\" (mountain pass)

\"and down here\" (subway)

\"even here\" (inside of car)

\"I am everywhere you are\" (daytime coastal city)

\"but never in the way\" (back to the blue background)

\"who am I?\"

\"Find out 3.9.06...\"


So that\'s it. I was expecting maybe a little more, like official screenshots of Project Origami.

The emphasis on freedom has got me thinking that maybe the Origami will have satellite internet comunication to your PC back at home (which would, undoubtedly, rock). Hypothetically, of course. If Microsoft has tapped into a new technology that no other company has before, it might have a leg up on the competition for portable organizers/gaming consoles/etc.

We\'ll have more information on the enigmatic Origami as information becomes available--hopefully on March 9th.

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