Great product packaging from Panasonic.

Flip SlideHD seems like an improvement over the MinoHD. But for $279? Engadget sums it up: 

“We’re less ambivalent about the $279 price tag, though — for that money you can get any number of very nice HD video-capable point-and-shoot cameras with three-inch screens, all of which offer better lenses, better sensors, and image stabilization.”