MyDevice is a mobile/cellphone that is motion-sensitive so you can scroll down a document by tilting it, or switch from a portrait to a landscape view by turning it round. The phone, developed by MyOrigo, from Finland, uses Tao's object-oriented operating system, developed in the UK. ZDNet UK has the details.
You can read Tao's press release here
Background: Tao's first OS was Taos, a very clever object-oriented parallel-processing portable OS running on a virtual processor. This meant it could offer "binary portability" and also run on different procesors at the same time. I seem to recall that development started on an Atari ST in the late1980s, with the company being founded in 1992. Amiga licensed it to form the basis of its next-generation AmigaDE platform (http://www.amigadev.net/ if you can get it to work). Tao sold a version called Elate in the embedded market, and the MyOrigo version is called Intent.
Trivia point: Chris Hinsley, the man behind Taos, wrote the hit game Everyone's A Wally for the Sinclair Spectrum.
