{"id":339,"date":"2009-01-06T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T05:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:39:29","slug":"mimobot-and-gurp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/write-ups\/mimobot-and-gurp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimobot and GURP"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love our Mimobots<\/a>. I find it difficult on a daily basis to justify not buying 10 more of these. I have to admit I have an unhealthy obsession with urban vinyl toys. So, when they\u00c2\u00a0actually\u00c2\u00a0have a real world function as a usb flash drive- I WANT! I WANT!<\/p>\n

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The plus for me, is that I actually need and use my Mimobot on a daily basis. \u00c2\u00a0I didn’t think it would be that way at first. I mean I knew I would use it here or there for file sharing. But, I always just either emailed small files or FTPd big ones. A flash drive gives you instant file sharing; instant being the key word.<\/p>\n

A short example:
\nI was running late for a meeting with a big pitch (for real). I had no time for posting a 2 GB file to FTP, emailing the FTP info to the end user, and sitting there waiting for that to upload and download. I just popped it on my mimobot in 15 seconds- done. This kind of speed adds valuable time to my work flow.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this isn’t a write-up about usb flash drives, it’s about Mimoco<\/a> and their Mimobots. I have been watching Mimoco grow since their first designer series a few years ago. They had various featured illustratrators design graphics over the basic mimobot shape.<\/p>\n

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I would describe the initial Mimobot shape as bear-ish. When I decided to take the plunge and purchase one, uh-oh; it was sold out. These little guys have been selling like crazy ever since.<\/p>\n

Heidi and I ended up with 2 of the Friends With You<\/a> series bots.\u00c2\u00a0 These came packed with little extras like: sound files, videos, sound effects for when you plug it in, and icons. Plus the protoHoodies are super useful for transport.<\/p>\n

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Mimoco does a great job of viral advertising. They are on all the standard social network sites; but their contests and e-newsletters are what catch me. When I see a new mimobot design appear in my inbox, I start reaching for my credit card. Which leads me to today’s email from Mimoco, regarding the Treeson<\/a> MIMOBOT by Bubi AuYeung- I WANT! I WANT!<\/p>\n

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The graphics are sweet, and fit the form factor nicely. As I was forwarding the email to Heidi (she is my yay or nay factor), I noticed more info about a program called GURP seen here:<\/p>\n

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The Greenbot USB Recycling Program (GURP) does what is says in the name- nice. Mimoco then gives you a discount towards a new Mimobot. I have over a dozen useless usb jump drives that I got as shwag at various events. I know where those are going now :-).<\/p>\n

Mimoco, you had me at Bobafett Mimobot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We love our Mimobots. I find it difficult on a daily basis to justify not buying 10 more of these. I have to admit I have an unhealthy obsession with urban vinyl toys. So, when they\u00c2\u00a0actually\u00c2\u00a0have a real world function as a usb flash drive- I WANT! I WANT! The plus for me, is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,35,32,34,36],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-write-ups","tag-flash-drive","tag-friends-with-you","tag-mimobot","tag-star-wars","tag-treeson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}