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It's hard to imagine extending Flip's mantle of simplicity to, gosh, a router, but Cisco makes a good go of it.

Cisco revels in simplicity with Flip SlideHD and Valet router 2010

One day Flip's father, an engineer, made the repairs by slathering the gaps with Bondo, a putty used in auto body repairs.

The Real Guitar Hero of Rock 'n' Roll Eric Felten 2011

Taylor (Tracie Thoms), Spoon's girl, is an earnest graduate student who is ill at ease among the rich, while Kimber (Rosie Benton), Flip's well-heeled companion, is—big surprise—white.

Guess Who's Coming to the Vineyard Terry Teachout 2011

Many argued that Flip's death was an obvious one, like shutting down the "Spider-Man" musical.

Finding a New Flip 2011

Flip's show was the Chitlin Circuit alternative to the respectable Carson version.

Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2) Shawn Amos 2011

To his surprise and his wallet's delight, AmEx's Purchase Protection program covered the Flip's damage and reimbursed him the cost.

Flip wouldn't fix my pocket camcorder, so AmEx reimbursed me 2010

Its footage looks as good as a Flip's, but it can easily share a video on the go.

Sharp and smart iPhone 4 offers even more -- along with the same old flaws 2010

That idiot-proof approach, like the Flip's, aims to woo the silent majority of users intimidated by consumer technology's complexity.

Cisco's Gadget Guru 2010

Users returned the gadget to the store to be refurbished and resold, and took away their videos on a CD, long before digital video could easily be stored on a home PC. As storage hardware evolved Kaplan threw out Pure Digital's one-time-use business model in 2007 but kept the Flip's simple design, adding software that allowed editing and uploading to the Web in a few clicks.

Cisco's Gadget Guru 2010

That idiot-proof approach, like the Flip's, aims to woo the silent majority of users intimidated by consumer technology's complexity.

Cisco's Gadget Guru 2010