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Seven Days recently purchased the newly released Flip Mino camcorder. Online Editor Cathy Resmer offers this video review.

Flip Mino Specs

Cost: $179.99

Capacity: Shoots an hour of video

Video resolution: 640 x 480

Plugs directly into your PC via a USB port.

Click here for the product page.

When it comes to working with ultra-small objects, very few people delve into as tiny a realm as Dennis Clougherty. The denizens of his workaday world — solitons, polarons, superconducting fullerides and colossal manganites — sound like characters out of Star Trek. Indeed, as a theoretical physicist, Clougherty boldly goes where few of us have gone before: namely, down to the quantum level, where the laws of Newtonian physics fly apart.... Read more

Grand wedding proposals on the Jumbotron or skywriting that reads, “I love you” aren’t necessarily the most meaningful ways to convey affection. Sometimes heartfelt sentiments take a smaller form. Much smaller. Just ask Gary and Harriet Mace.... Read more

Richard A. Caira Jr.’s Kadet monoplane bumps ungracefully over the freshly mown turf on a country airstrip in Barre, jouncing against sod tufts and making the veteran flyer wince.

“Grass isn’t cut close enough,” Caira mutters. “It’s like that sometimes if we let the field go too long between mows. Just hope we don’t run out of runway.”

Caira throws the throttle to maximum. The Kadet porpoises up, down, then finally catches enough air to stay aloft. The pilot allows himself a thin smile as he banks right over the adjoining high-grass farmland.... Read more

Large-print books have an obvious function. But if you’ve ever purchased a little pamphlet containing handmade art or poetry from the “Glad-i-ator” in Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café, you’ve felt the pull of pocket-sized aesthetic joys. Formal presses and fine artists can attest to the charms of small type. In the history of print, miniature books are a mighty force with a devoted following of creators, collectors and cataloguers.... Read more

Carol Norton’s paintings measure 1-and-a-half by 1-and-a-quarter inches. Christina Goodman’s range from about three-eighths of an inch to 3 inches. Both artists take the adjective “small-scale” to an extreme. Beyond that, they could hardly be more different.... Read more

Cindy Dailey hasn’t been getting much sleep lately. Her mare, named Darros Skippers Itzy Bitzy Nuffin, is 342 days pregnant. When Itzy’s foal is born, it will stand roughly 17 inches at the withers — the last few hairs of its mane. That’s half the size of its mom.

Dailey is a miniature-horse owner and breeder in East Hardwick. And Itzy is not her only charge. Dailey has kept her farmyard full of tiny equines since 2001, with help from fellow owner/breeder Tammie Wetherell.... Read more

Ever since the days when I cooked by plastic-housewife proxy in the kitchen of my well-loved ranch-style dollhouse, I’ve been fascinated with tiny food. Seriously, what’s cuter than a lattice-topped cherry pie “baked” into a bottle-cap tin?... Read more

Remember in the late 1990s, when big was all the rage? SUV sales were skyrocketing. McDonald’s urged us to supersize. Everybody seemed to be living large.

Things have certainly changed.

Now that gas is topping $4 a gallon, it looks like the Hummer is headed for extinction. Widespread obesity, and rising food prices, have popularized portion control. And in the midst of the subprime-mortgage crisis and the accompanying credit crunch, downsizing is the latest trend.... Read more

Lindsey Lu, the baby-and-mom clothing store in Colchester, takes its name from both owner Lindsey Louchheim and her daughter Lulu. The business wouldn’t exist if not for Lulu, explains the 32-year-old mother of two. When Louchheim became pregnant four years ago and needed maternity clothes, she taught herself to sew by hand. Soon she began outfitting her daughter and, later, her son Wolfgang. “Then a ton of our friends all got pregnant at the same time, so I started making clothing for their kids,” explains the petite, serious blond.... Read more