Mimoco Outs 5th Series of Star Wars Mimobot Flash Drives
The force is still strong with lovers of the one true trilogy, Star Wars. This is the 5th year running that Mimoco has given us a new set of Star Wars-themed Mimobot USB flash drives. The latest set adds some of the iconic characters from A New Hope. Storm Trooper suited Luke and Han, a Jawa, R2-D2 and the venerable Ben Kenobi are this year's newest additions. The Mimobot's head conceals USB connectors that allow you to plug them in, head first, and use them as flash drives. The drives are available in 2, 4, 8 and 16GB capacities. They had an impromptu vote to see which was the most popular by community vote and Ben Kenobi edged out the Tie Pilot by a nose.
They also offer a Mimobot protoHoodie to help protect your prized effigy. Stock can be a problem on these so snap them up quick; some of them are actually hard to find. There are some members of the previous sets that are still available. There's about 20 of them altogether so you have a fair chance of finding your favorite character. Yes, that includes Solo. Just don't order Solo and Fett together at the same time, there's a bit of bad blood there and your data might get corrupted. Pick up the R2-D2 drive if you have any stolen plans you need to smuggle to your resistance group or maybe you need help fending off the Attack of the Cloned drive images. They start out at $30 and go all the way up to $90 and you can tractor them home right now.
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Flip Slide HD Camcorder, Mino Successor, has Tilt stylings
The makers of the Flip series of miniature digital camcorders have a new model arriving in stores right now. In the next few days at Best Buy, the Flip Slide HD will be up for purchase. The Slide HD has combined the easy to use camcorder with the wide-screen easy viewing style of the popular AT&T cell phone. The Flip Video was acquired by Cisco a little over a year ago, and the Slide HD packs the same features as the Flip Video Mino Ultra HD.
The slide up wide-screen display will make for easy reviewing the family outings or party pics the next day or between classes. The Flip Slide HD - like most of predecessors - captures 720p (H.264 / AAC) video at 30fps onto its 16GB internal memory. That's enough for 4 hours of video on rechargeable batteries, which will likely only last for half of that between charges. There's no provision of a SDHC slot so the Slide HD is indeed made for short trips. We wish there's some way that the new WD AV drive could work with the Slide HD so we can just leave behind our laptops on weeklong vacations. Everything else seems to be keeping with previous releases. There's another feature that might show up if final specs get exposed, mini-HDMI. Many of today's camcorders in this range are empowering table top replay on your big screen TVs. Watch for BestBuy's weekend ads in the next few days to get the rest of the details and the MSRP.
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Cowon J3 Likely to Become Company's Flagship PMP
When you don't have the backing of an insanely popular apps store, maybe it's time to move on to other upgrades that position your product from rest of the pack. For Cowon J3, that would be AMOLED; a unique sound equalizer; a microSDHC slot; built-in dictionary; and music playtime time that goes on more than your ears can endure. The said AMOLED, like OLED, requires no backlighting, allowing for more vibrant colors and truer blacks as there's no light from behind the screen to wash out the colors.
Cowon J3's unique sound equalizer - called JetEffect 3.0 - comes with no less than 39 presets and mystically improves the audio quality at the expense of some battery life. The J3's microSDHC slot gives you an additional 32GB storage for all those DivX and XviD you will be watching. There's no mention of WiFi nor MKV and H.264, which could become a deal breaker for some of us. Flash pretty much handles the interface which is displayed through the J3's 3.3" 480x272 capacitive touchscreen. Hopefully, the interface responsiveness is better than that of Samsung P3. At just 9.9mm thick, the number means nothing now as it just couldn't get any thinner than this.
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