The front page of Steorn's web site has changed in the past 24 hours -- all the previous content is gone, replaced with a blue curtain and the date "4 February 2009". According to Sean McCarthy's December talk at the Dublin Institute of Technology, February is when Steorn will begin the process of going public with its Orbo technology, and that just might begin tomorrow. According to Sean, Steorn will begin by calling for 300 engineers to sign NDAs and begin replicating Orbo. An open call for engineers may be all we see in February, but it's just possible we'll finally get a glimpse of the one thing behind the curtain that really matters, if it exists at all -- a perpetually spinning Orbo.
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