Ok so the million dollar question that everybody’s been asking today is what is Microsoft’s Origami Project? And how comes I haven’t heard much about it since today?

Well one of the reasons is that there hasn’t been much press release on it at all and also for the fact that the domain name http://www.origamiproject.com as only just been mentioned out as it was found out that it was registered to Microsoft!

Even Robert Scoble didn’t know this domain name existed yet and only knew about it from an email sent in by JP Dubois, so as you can see not much is know about it except for the fact that Origami is the code-name for a new kind of ultra portable mobile device and that more details on it will be available on March the 2nd 2006.

But for now all we can do is read below, visit the site and dream about what it really looks like and wish for more information to come out soon, anyway as I am talking about wishes, I think I’ll be making one of them usless wish lists soon so guess what I’ll be wishing for on it, yep you guessed correct it will be one of these little baby portable devices that I have been talking about because they sound so cool that we hardly know nothing about them hehe, anyway forgive my ramblings, please read below:

They’re asking the question over at Scobleizer … and Microsoft’s Robert Scoble isn’t offering more than hints. Visitors are just guessing.

The Origami Project’s teaser of a Web site offers even less … but does have an RSS feed.

Fortunately, we know someone who knows for certain. According to an industry source who has seen the thing and calls it “very cool,” Origami is one and the same with this ultraportable “lifestyle PC” we were talking about here earlier today. This source is under NDA, an honest fellow and unwilling to share more than his help connecting the dots.

Earlier this month, the author of a blog called Engadget described the device this way: “According to at least one report, Bill Mitchell, Corporate Vice President of the Mobile Platform Division, showed a slide that outlined specs for the new PC category, including that it be wearable, always on, no larger than 10-inches, connected through 3G networks, pen-based, and have a suggested retail price of $500 or less. … One notable spec that could differentiate this one: Microsoft is apparently insisting that this run the full version of Windows.”

The Origami Project Web site promises there will be news March 2.

Via: Networkworld | Robert Scoble’s Blog