COMIC-CON 2006
@ San Diego Convention Center
URL: http://www.comic-con.org
We went to COMIC-CON on Friday since Paul had his summer day off :) So, we made a plan with our nephew Davey and met him at the event.
Oh my goodness! There were soooo many people there even on Friday! CRAZINESS! I guess there are more and more people there every year (the attendance supposedly doubled from 2 years ago!)... and more and more new vendors show up that don't really have much to do with the comics industry. It was pretty overwhelming at time, but we had our own fun :)
My favorite area to visit at Comic-Con is checking out all the new collectible and art toys (probably going against a lot of the Comic-Con traditions). Also, I enjoy looking at all the NERDS who are dressed up as various characters in silly costumes!! (Please don't be offended, I admire and love nerds!) They are cool :)
Since we got there kind of late, we missed meeting most of the artists I wanted to meet... Oh well! But, I found a new toy/product called "mimobots" which I really thought was cool :)
URL: mimoco : mimobots
Shop@: Online / Retail Stores
They are USB flash drives available in 256MB to 2GB! Of course Mac & PC compatible.
They are produced in limited edition quantities. Oh my gosh... I so wanted to bring one home with me!!! They are not only cute, but something quite useful!
I got to talk to the producer of the mimobot. He just came back from a convention in Japan. He told me he loves toys, but he was getting tired of toys that don't serve any purpose other than having them sit on or near your computer display. (Good point there... although I still love toys!!) I really love the fact that they are more than just cute cool looking art/toys on the shelf. Also, this way, if you store different types of data on each monster, then it would make it easier to organize your digital files or photos, or whatever! Pretty nifty :)
Check out their products as well as some other USB Gadgets on Amazon.
COMMENTS (1)
I am truly intrigued with the mimobots as flash drives. I can see them as quite useful for the digital photographs I take on race weekends since I like to put those into storage/transfer media at the end of each day. A mimobot would be much easier than lugging one of the laptops around.
Junior
Posted by Francis Russell | July 27, 2006 5:14 PM