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.

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