This Does Not Compute | The Weird 3M Flip Camera Rival from 2011 @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The late 2000s and early 2010s saw a huge increase in online video, and people wanted an easy way to shoot and share digital footage. Let's take a look at a model that went head-on with behemoth Flip Video from, oddly enough, 3M.

Sources/further reading:
Flip discontinued article: nytimes.com/2011/04/13/technology/13flip.html
Cisco acquires Flip article: cnet.com/news/cisco-buys-flip-video-maker-for-590-million
Why Cisco discontinued the Flip lineup: cnet.com/news/why-cisco-killed-the-flip-mini-camcorder

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