[kictanet] Flipping over Flip

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <brian at caret.net> wrote:
> Flipping over Flip
> http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/07/flipping-over-flip.html
> Yesterday I came across the most amazing piece of technology that I have
> seen in recent days.
> Gregg Zachary was just back in Nairobi enroute to his home in the USA and I
> managed to catch him for a couple of hours of talk. During this he showed me
> some videos he had taken in Zambia and Uganda and said that he had used his
> "Flip camera". I was like, "what? Flip?" and he said "I'll show you."
> When I saw the device I almost fell over. Barely the size of a cigarette
> pack, this modern day wonder allows the recording of up to 1 hour of video,
> stores in in .avi format (YouTube Ready!) on an internal solid state (Flash)
> disk and uses simple, everyday AA batteries. Wow! The most amazing part of
> all was the price. Gregg bought his off-the-shelf in the USA before coming
> out on this trip for $125 (Kshs. 8,000).
> This amazing little piece of technology has a built-in USB-flash dongle,
> which allows you to hook it up to your computer - and the software for
> transferring, editing and managing video is right on the stick! Wacha
> nikuambie!!!! I believe that this gadget and others like it is probably
> going to have a similar impact on the videocam industry as cellphones had in
> the telecoms industry.
> According to Business Week and the New York Times Pure Digital, the startup
> company behind the Flip cam was able to achieve 20% market share in the US
> videocam industry within less than 1 year.
> My head has been spinning with ideas on how this kind of device can
> contribute towards the development of local, African content.
> Boy o boy am I excited. I want to try and put several of these into the
> hands of people all over Kenya and see what happens....

Hi Mblayo,

I'll be so happy to be one of the recipients of that philanthropic act:-)

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