Native Union Debuts a Refrigerator Post-It for the Digital Age

Native Union, the company best known for its colorful MoshiMoshi retro cellphone handsets, has created a device that has roughly the same footprint as a Post-It but is actually a battery-powered video recorder and playback device.

Called Play, the gadget is roughly an inch thick and shaped like a comic strip dialog balloon, complete with tail. A 2.4-inch, 320-by-240 LCD takes up most of the device’s real estate, with three buttons to operate it to the right of the display. The sides and back are brightly colored (it's available in white, black, red, purple, blue, pink or green), and the back is magnetized so you can slap it on your refrigerator or any other surface on which you used to stick Post-Its. (If you don't have a metallic surface, you can use an included piece of magnetized wall tape to create one.)

The three buttons are, from top to bottom, for playback; on/off/record; and deletion of messages. Play's 256MB of memory holds up to three minutes' worth of video recording, but you can record multiple short messages until you reach the limit. The messages are captured with a .3-megapixel camera and labeled with a date and time stamp.

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