[Opensource] Flip Video Linux

[Roland Gesthuizen]

 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesguske/1479558127/>
 Flip Video Linux <http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesguske/1479558127/>
Originally uploaded by jamesguske <http://www.flickr.com/people/jamesguske/>
Flip Video <http://www.theflip.com> is impressive and robust little unit for
schools for video or stop motion animation. Here is an interesting YouTube
review <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBmVmPNBtgQ&feature=user> by David
Pogue from NYTimes that includes a comparison with camcorder footage. Whilst
it is not yet available for sale in Australia (yet) .. this device will
probably only cost around $150.

I notice that FlipVideo:

   - comes with an underwater
housing<http://www.theflip.com/store/Product.aspx?SKU=AWC1T>(we have a
surf-life saving squad)
   - comes with an action
mount<http://www.theflip.com/store/Product.aspx?SKU=AAM1N>and
protective silicon skin (sports students will love this)
   - works with
Linux<http://jamesguske.blogspot.com/2007/10/flip-video-ultra-works-in-ubuntu.html>,
   even our Linux flavoured school eeePC's.

Don't laugh about giving students small cameras.. students with an OLPC XO
computer <http://laptop.org/> in third world counties are already posting
vidoes onto the web from their cheap laptops, cush as this one records a cow
birth.

http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/2007/08/birth-of-cow-in-villa-cardal.html

This is going to be a valuable ICT eLearning tool for schools to acquire ..
even as a class set. :-)

We live in exciting times.

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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