Microsoft Origami

[Alkabiades]

Wish I knew how to get the music.

[sival]

That was an interesting concept, except that the market wasn't ready for it yet.

People had to be introduced to touchscreen-only interfaces through smartphones before they would be ready for the introduction of tablet PCs (though presently tablets are more big smartphones than small computers).

Microsoft did it the wrong way around, taking a OS and an UI made for keyboard/mouse and trying to put it on a touchscreen. They went top-down not bottom-up.

[joselrodriguezespin]

Microsoft had an idea. They didn´t made it real. Apple was faster. Those are true facts. But Microsoft was the visionary. 5 years ago I was dreaming about buying one thing like this. Now, I can. And the music ROCKS

[joselrodriguezespin]

Microsoft had an idea. They didn´t made it real. Apple was faster. Those are true facts. But Microsoft was the visionary. 5 years ago I was dreaming about buying one thing like this. Now, I can.

[theearthboundkid]

@joselrodriguezespin Someone at Microsoft had the idea, but what's interesting to me is that I recall thinking at the time this came out "Too unrealistically fancy and integrated" and now I think "Wow, my iPad is way more capable than that." So they had a vision, but the vision turned out to be near-sighted in a lot of important ways. Why does the thing have a pen? Why such a small screen? No phone? No camera? Even with those limitations, MS still didn't make it real though, and real is the key.

[WaltFrench]

Proof that Microsoft has no shortage of “visionaries” and no lack of big bucks for marketing.

They just have no idea how to make a product that real people can use, unless it's the 17th iteration of a concept that was born in the 1980s. I think it's rather amazing how much farther tablets have come in the 5 years since this impossible (for 2006) video was posted.

[Gbcue]

Microsoft invented the tablets we see today in the iPad, etc. a year before the iPhone was even out.

[MRINTERDOG]

more vapourware bullshit

[originalmianos]

Where is the original? This one is a blur. The original looked great.

[NitekMuscle]

I would consider this if it were much thinner and, maybe, just maybe featured a Zune media player.

[ezra4no1]

Wow... all the comments on here are from idiots with no real life experience with technology. Point in case - tablet PCs are still used in the medical field, law enforcement, traders on wall street, and many many many other places for business. Ask any of them if they want them smaller slicker - most dont care as long as it holds a long battery charge and it does the job. The Origami was based on the same notion - to have an ultra mobile computing platform that works and easier to carry around.

[ezra4no1]

This is why you don't see a bunch of 14 year olds in this video playing with "iFart" - Thanks Apple! What the video does show are people moving about their lives and still being able to do their work on a computer where ever they are with out needing to be at a desk where a computer is and communicating their ideas and or work with others while still being mobile! - Gee lets all pick on Microsoft because they make as much money in 8 weeks than Apple grosses in an entire year.

[Playgeer]

The iPhone is still way better <3

[universaleuomo]

Here, let me whip out my "portable" microsoft origami... WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE: Form of... KING KONG!... Ok, now I'm strong enough to (urgh)lift... from... giant... shoulder... bag...

LOL,

Yet still, I want one?

[Weichspueler]

In fact... the interesting fact about this movie is not the product... but the video itself. I like the filmic aspects and the way it has been done. Very good combination of music and images....nice cutting... sometimes just think a little bit deeper... there's more than just the stupid product ^^ (sorry for my terrible english)

[tasmasta]

Damn is this redicolous, that thing is like an ugly toy for stupid fat rich children, as if some one would use this like that...reminds me of that table paint thing which u can shake...

[fallenwillrise]

An Etch-A-Sketch, ya. They didnt succeed in making it look believable, it kinda looked awkward how these people walked around with this fat blocky looking thing, especially the lady doodles the t-shirt thing. This is ad fails becouse it doesnt persuade or inspire. It also looks like one of those old sega gamegears, but bigger. If it was smaller, thinner and sleaker, and CHEAPER, it would work out. Sorry MS, give it up lol

[ho0ber]

It is like a color newton, but with crappy windows on it. :)

[dredwolff]

this thing is HUGE for a portable device, M$ should have made it smaller, and didn't the whole tablet PC idea die when people realized they didn't want a giant expensive PDAs?