A Camera That Honors the Flip     Text Size   Published:
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 | 4:27 PM ET By: David Pogue|The New York
Times  This column might look like a review of Casio’s radically
designed Tryx camera. But it’s really a thinly disguised defense
of single-purpose gadgets.  Source: Casio Casio Tryx  The Tryx
($250) is a very simple camera. It has only two buttons. It has
no optical zoom. It doesn’t have an image stabilizer. You can’t
remove the battery. You can’t set the aperture or shutter speed.
Casio is calling it “the Flip of still cameras.”  That, of
course, is a reference to the incredibly simple Flip pocket
camcorder. People loved the Flip because it worked: the first
time, every time. When something happened worth filming, you
pressed the big red button on the back. You didn’t mess with
tapes or disks or menus or mode dials or flipping out a screen.
That’s why the Flip became outrageously popular. Its maker sold
two million Flips in the first six months. It became the No. 1
bestselling camcorder o