Yet even more reasons Origami could change our lives:

8. My brother is a musician. Origami would be perfect for him because he could cart it everywhere to hook into the sound system and record everything. Origami essentially would act like a very advanced mobile storage device with a screen and almost everything else. Origami combines so much functionality into one device.

NOTE: We will have to wait for a nice sized hard drive in an Origami until generation 3 or 4. I want a 160GB - 300GB drive in an Origami device which would prove its usefulness as a media device.

9. My sister is a nurse and she goes to a patient's home to provide hospice care every day. Origami would be perfect for her because she needs to take readings of blood-pressures and cholesterol levels. She could bring all her games, home-work, music, e-books, pictures and other content with her everywhere. With a built-in digital camera and video-conferencing, she could collaborate with colleagues from her company in real-time to help diagnose problems with patients or with documenting cases for later research.

As you can tell, the list just keeps going on and on with the potential uses for Origami, or the UMPC as some are fond of calling it. Whatever you call it, with some careful engineering, and the right mixture of functionality, hardware, and software, I really think Origami will be a hit with high school and college kids, consumers and gadgeteers. Maybe one day soon Origami will even wow the critics or even those who right now think a UMPC is a big joke.