The Flip Mino is a parent-proof, pocket sized point and shoot camcorder recording to internal memory. The original Flip has been around for a while but there’s a new HD version in town, and it comes to Firebox UK on Monday.

Keeping the form factor and ease of use that made the flip a global smash, the Flip Mino HD adds 720p recording (making it the smallest HD camcorder in the world*) and keeps the 60 minute recording time of the original thanks to upgraded storage.

Part of the flip’s appeal is its ease of use – it recharges and connects to a PC via USB and also comes with built in editing / sharing software (for Windows and Mac) which installs when you connect it, so you’re never without the ability to cut your films together or upload them to youtube.

Yours for £170 from tomorrow morning.

*OK, so the press release said it was the world’s smallest HD camcorder at the time it was released, which was October last year in the US. We can’t keep on top of everything so somebody, somewhere may have launched a smaller one between then and now.