After tons of speculation, the

12 Dec 2001

After tons of speculation, the device known as "WHAT" (or "Danza") is at last revealed to be the Megway HT.

This thing is gonna be bigger than the Beatles!

Update: As MetaFilter's server (which hosts the demo movie) is getting overwhelmed, I've mirrored the Megway Demo movie here. Jason told me last night that this is what happens when Meg, Jason and Matt aren't working. And by golly, if that's true, then I hope they stay unemployed forever!

Wait, that's not right...

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