Tag: ORIGAMI

Paper Critters is an online Flash application/gallery that lets you create printable cartoonish "people." The critters are all the same shape -- a big headed, blocky type of "person." However, what you can print on this shape is only limited by your imagination. The site provides a comprehensive editor with lots of "stamps" (like the eyes in the image above) and also allows for freehand drawing, ...

Origami is the art of folding paper to create beautiful sculptures of animals or objects. No glue or scissors are used at all, only folds on the paper itself. It goes without saying that it can take years to master the art of origami. But instant-origami has developed some clever ways to shorten the learning curve. Using the power of video, instant-origami gives you a birds eye view of some very ...

Microsoft has released the Origami Experience 2.0. In case you missed out on the first version of the Origami Experience, it's basically a suite of software designed to make it easier to navigate on Ultra-Mobile PCs, or tiny tablets like the Samsung Q1. The new version requires a touch panel display, 100MB of disk space, and 1GB of system memory to work properly. The new version includes a ...

Now that the excitement has died down, software products are starting to appear that are 'tuned' for the UMPC's form factor.  Yes, we know that Microsoft has made is a point to tell everyone who will listen that the UMPC's greatest appeal is that it can run any Windows XP application.  While that may be true, the smallish screen size of the UMPC made us wonder how we'd squeeze some of ...

We prefer to leave the gadget news coverage to the pros so we haven't been covering every little development in Microsoft's no-longer-mysterious Origami "ultramobile" handheld tablet PC buzz campaign, but we are user interface nerds, so Engadget's coverage of Origami's novel "Touch Pack Interface" piqued our interest. The core of the Origami Touch Pack Interface is a virtual ...

Hardware isn't really among our core competencies here at Download Squad, but since we keep getting comments on our previous posts about Origami, Microsoft's vastly successful viral marketing campaign slash upcoming "ultramobile lifestyle PC," I figure I ought to keep you up to speed. The other day Microsoft updated the Origami Project web site for "Week 2," which isn't much ...

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 ...

The question of the day is, "What's origamiproject.com?" All we know is this: It belongs to Microsoft and appears to be a part of some viral marketing campaign. Currently the web site has nothing but an ambiguous AT&T-esque message that says, "Hello. Do you know me? Do you know what I can do? And where I can go? Or how I can change your life? You will. Learn more ...