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I always wanted a Flip camera. Apparently, the assumption that everyone’s phone has video capability has led to the little video camera’s early demise. As Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle writes, “Like putting down an old blind mule with no hooves, in 2011, killing the Flip is killing something useless.”  My iPhone 3G doesn’t have video! I feel so…obsolete. I will just have to resort to making stop motion films with still images. All you have to upload them, print them out, go to KMart and get them printed, then staple them together. Back in my day, we called these a flip book. It’s one solution now that  the “flip” has gone the way of the “book.”   (via The Flip Camera Is Finally Dead—Your Smartphone’s Got Blood on Its Hands)

I always wanted a Flip camera. Apparently, the assumption that everyone’s phone has video capability has led to the little video camera’s early demise. As Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle writes, “Like putting down an old blind mule with no hooves, in 2011, killing the Flip is killing something useless.” 

My iPhone 3G doesn’t have video! I feel so…obsolete. I will just have to resort to making stop motion films with still images. All you have to upload them, print them out, go to KMart and get them printed, then staple them together. Back in my day, we called these a flip book. It’s one solution now that  the “flip” has gone the way of the “book.” 

 (via The Flip Camera Is Finally Dead—Your Smartphone’s Got Blood on Its Hands)

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