The Apple Newton showed that form factor is everything. The Newton was pretty cool and ahead of its time – the first PDA. But it was the wrong size.
The Palm Pilot did less (it didn’t even try to do full handwriting recognition), but it was the right size. The same form factor as Walkmans and cigarette packets and wallets and iPods, it slipped into existing shirt and jacket pockets, to be carried everywhere.
Good design is about the right choices not technical wizardry. The Segway looked like magic – a two wheeled stable vehicle. But it needed gyros and computing power because its two wheels were next to each other. If its wheels were inline then it would have been a bicycle and the conservation of angular momentum alone would have kept it aloft. The bicycle is a better design for a two wheeled vehicle than a Segway.
The Origami is remarkably similar in size to the Newton – and therefore, even if it packs as much technical innovation as the Segway, unless people start wearing sporrans, the world over, it will die.