It’s superhero madness here at Mimoco and we don’t care who knows it! We’re halfway through 2012, a year that’s already seen tons of great new MIMOBOT characters, and we’re showing no signs of stopping! We’re adding to our line of Batman and Green Lantern waves of our DC X MIMOBOT Designer USB flash drives to bring you Batman “The Dark Knight Rises Edition”, Bane, Superman, and Flash! Available now in up to 64GB capacities, all of these brand-new designs come preloaded with bonus media alongside Mimory™ & mimoDesk™ suites of screensavers, avatars, and wallpapers.
The Bat
We are beyond excited for the upcoming Batman: The Dark Knight Rises movie, (set for release on July 20th). In fact, we’re already standing on-line to get tix. That’s the kind of excitement we’re talking about here. And because we can’t wait for the movie, we’re releasing the Batman™ (The Dark Knight Rises Edition) X MIMOBOT®, featuring a brand-new a design inspired by the Christopher Nolan-helmed trilogy of movies. Dark, powerful, and blurring the line between hero and villain, is it the fear Batman inspires in the hearts of innocents and criminals alike that keeps your data safe, or is it the goodness that we know is at the core of the caped crusader? Get yours now!
The Bane
The League of Shadows has many assassins, many shades that flicker in the night. In the turmoil and doubt that has bred in Gotham’s alleys following Harvey Dent’s fall, the city is again full of dark places, but no figure casts longer shadows than Bane X MIMOBOT.
An acolyte of Batman Begins’ villain and League of Shadows leader, Ras al Ghul, Bane is a revolutionary, an assassin, and is now one of the all-time most bad-ass villainous MIMOBOT flash drives ever released! Want to get your hands on your very own Bane x MIMOBOT? Come see us at San Diego Comi-con!
The S-Man
Don’t be Clark Kent-ish! Take off those glasses, tear open your shirt, and save the day with all of your music, pics, documents at the tip of your fingers. Superman™ X MIMOBOT® – The Man of Steel is now the ultimate in transportable data! And all of it packaged as the most iconic superhero of all time, complete with red cape, “S” insignia, and swooping hair. Get yours now!
The Flash flash drive
The Store and transport your data at lightning fast speeds with the ultimate self-referential flash drive of all time, the Flash™ X MIMOBOT® designer USB flash drive. Could there be a more perfect character for a character-based flash drive? The answer, of course, is no. With his retro crimson superhero threads and lightning bolt insignia, the Flash MIMOBOT can fetch your data and come back again before you can say, “Hey! Where’d my Flash MIMOBOT go? Oh, wait, there it is!” Get yours now!
(BOSTON – June 12, 2012) – Mimoco, creator of the MIMOBOT® line of designer USB flash drives and MIMOMICRO® card readers, and Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, the world’s largest publisher of comic books, introduce the Batman™ “The Dark Knight Rises” Edition, Superman, and The Flash series of MIMOBOT designer USB flash drives. Joining the original Batman and Green Lantern waves of MIMOBOT flash drives, these essential super hero characters are available in up to 64GB capacities and come preloaded with bonus Mimory™ and mimoDesk™ suites of screensavers, avatars, and wallpapers.
“We’re beyond thrilled to introduce these iconic and essential super heroes into the DC Comics X MIMOBOT line-up,” says Scott Seraydarian, Director of Media at Mimoco. “Superman, in many ways, defined American pop-culture in the 20th Century, and The Flash is just perfect for our line of designer USB flash drives. We at Mimoco are also excited to see ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ when it hits theatres this summer and are pleased to take part with the release of our awesome new ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Edition of Batman MIMOBOT flash drives.”
Batman™ (“The Dark Knight Rises” Edition) X MIMOBOT® features a brand-new design inspired by the Christopher Nolan-helmed trilogy of films. Batman™ (“The Dark Knight Rises” Edition) X MIMOBOT allows you to safely transport your documents, pictures, music and more, in style.
Bane™ (“The Dark Knight Rises” Edition) X MIMOBOT®, a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive produced in a limited edition of only 500 units, presents the powerful villain in this summer’s highly anticipated film. With his characteristic life-sustaining face-mask and military jacket, Bane (“The Dark Knight Rises” Edition) X MIMOBOT is focused on destroying the Batman once and for all, with a little help from your digital data, of course…
Superman™ X MIMOBOT® – The Man of Steel is now the ultimate in transportable data! Don’t be Clark Kent! Take off those glasses, tear open your shirt, and save the day with all of your music, pics, and documents at the tip of your fingers. All of it will be packaged as one of the most iconic super heroes of all time, complete with red cape, S-shield, and swooping hair. When you need your digital data, Superman MIMOBOT will be there to save the day!
The Flash™ X MIMOBOT® - Store and transport your data at lightning fast speeds with the ultimate self-referential flash drive of all time, The Flash MIMOBOT designer USB flash drive. Could there be a more perfect character for a character-based flash drive? The answer, of course, is no. With his retro crimson super hero threads and lightning bolt insignia, The Flash MIMOBOT can fetch your data and come back again before you can say, “Hey! Where’d The Flash MIMOBOT go? Oh, wait, there it is!”
The full DC Comics x MIMOBOT USB flash drive collection is now available exclusively at www.mimoco.com and in select retail shops worldwide.
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About Mimoco
Boston-based design house Mimoco fuses the art of contemporary characters with the functionality of personal data storage devices and is well known in both the pop-culture driven Art Toy underground and the high-tech electronic world. The MIMOBOT USB flash drive line includes original characters and licenses from Star Wars, Hello Kitty®, and DC Comics™, to pop-artists like Gary Baseman, David Horvath, and FriendsWithYou™. MIMOBOT flash drives are available in up to 64GB capacities, are Mac and Windows compatible, and include preloaded bonus MimoDesk™ content. Learn more at www.mimoco.com.
About “The Dark Knight Rises”
Opening in theatres and IMAX on July 20, 2012, “The Dark Knight Rises” stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Morgan Freeman. Christopher Nolan directed the film from a screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Charles Roven are the producers, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers, and Jordan Goldberg co-producing. “The Dark Knight Rises” is based upon Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a Film by Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight Rises,” to be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language. www.thedarkknightrises.com
About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
About DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. In January 2012, DC Entertainment, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and Time Warner divisions, launched We Can Be Heroes-a giving campaign featuring the iconic Justice League super heroes-to raise awareness and funds to fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.
