The Origami Project is an impending digital product, but also a mystery. Microsoft's in-house blogger believes the site was registered by Redmond, but won't comment further. Various rumors hold that Origami is a mobile phone, or some sort of handheld computer (like this one) (or that one). The Wikipedia page is already accumulating links.
It's all very alternate reality game-like. There's a web page trailhead, emitting mysterious music, cryptic and fairly begging
analysis and decryption:
There's the tip-off and discussion. There's even a timeline - notice the three weekly buttons on the bottom left. And Microsoft isn't an ARG newbee.
I asked my ARG-attuned children what they thought. Owain: "it sounds like Lost". Gwynneth: it "looks like a Navi".
Naturally enough, I'm playing into the whole thing by posting here...
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