Friday, May 23, 2008

Doc uses Flip Video to document bad hospital eats

Vancouver Sun: MD exposes hospitals’ deep-fried diets.

In choppy videos and text posted this week on his popular blog, Weighty Matters, obesity expert Yoni Freedhoff began his culinary espionage at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus.

Neither did well.

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NYT: Convenience not quality pumped the Flip

New York Times: Flipped out.

“It was not a quality play,” concedes Simon Fleming-Wood, the vice president of marketing for Pure Digital Technologies, which makes the Flip. “It was a convenience play.” Convenience, of course, can be one of the most awesome forces in American culture. And Pure Digital, previously a nonentity in the camcorder market, has sold about one million Flips in the past year.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Slimmer Flip coming next month

CNET’s Crave reports that a new, slimmer Flip called the Mino is coming June 4, with a recommended retail price of $180. No word on features or other specs. Stay tuned!

Also, it appears someone is squatting on the domain flipmino.com.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

“It does just enough to get the job done”

Uber-geek and gadget freak (and we mean those, naturally, in the best possible way) Chris Pirillo talks about the Flip Video. Among the things he likes is that he can give it to his dad and “it just works”.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Creative Vado introduced

As expected, Creative Labs introduced the Vado Pocket Video Cam VF0570 today. A Flip-like form factor, it comes in silver or metallic pink casings, with a two hour capacity, 2” non-glare screen, and internal battery that’s rechargeable via the built-in USB connection, and with internal software that promises one-button uploading to YouTube and Photobucket. The Vado retails for $99 and is available today. (Amazon: Vado Pocket Video Cam (Silver) and Vado Pocket Video Cam (Pink).)

While the system requirements list a minimum Mac system of 10.4.11 or later, they also confusingly state that “The Vado™ software is not compatible with Mac OS X.”, with a note that Vado videos can be viewed in QuickTime player with the free Xvid codec plugin.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Flip clone coming from Creative?

Gizmodo reports that electronics maker Creative Labs may be introducing a Flip Video-like camera called the Vado.

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