Category — Digital Cameras

Here’s a personal GPS tracking gadget that looks like interesting: the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker Messenger. It has a built in GPS chip which monitors and reports the user’s location from anywhere on the planet, and it works with Google Earth to provide real-time location mapping. The SPOT GPS tracker has a built in help and emergency buttons which allow the user to immediately send location reports to select family members, friends, or emergency services.

Here are a few ideas for using the SPOT GPS tracker:

Track a Teenage Driver: This GPS tracker can be tossed in the glove box of a car to monitor your teenager’s location at all times.

Child Safety: Clip the SPOT GPS tracking system inside a child’s backpack for added peace of mind.

Hiking/Camping: Use for added safety when no cell phone service is available.

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Here’s a cool gadget that makes it easy to create your own dvds from digital video. RCA has combined the Small Wonders video camera with the Memory Maker DVD burner to create a combo pack. The digital video camera actually docks on top of the DVD burner, allowing you to quickly select the video you want to burn a copy of.

The Small Wonder camera features 2X zoom, one button recording, 60 minutes of video storage, and has an SD card slot. You can add your own SD card for an additional 4 hours of record time. The dvd burner/video camera combo also comes with a remote control. I like this idea because it seems very convenient for those who are stressed out by numerous cords and connections. But it’s too bad the Small Wonder is just for video…no still shots.

Just can’t quit snapping those digital pictures? If your computer is bogged down by folder after folder full of digital photos, here’s a cool gadget for you. The Polaroid PhotoKeeper is an 80GB portable hard drive designed to store up to 80,000 digital photographs. The photo storage hard drive comes with an AC adapter, USB cable and a carrying case. This new gadget is easy to install- when you plug it into your computer it automatically detects the location of all your digital photo files and stores them. I found the Polaroid PhotoKeeper portable hard drive at QVC for $144.

With sky rocketing gas and grocery prices, many of us are cutting corners everywhere we can.  But that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on having fun new gadgets.  Here are 3 budget friendly gadgets, all priced under $99.

The Sansa Fuze:  Made by SanDisk, the Sansa Fuze 4GB MP3 player holds 1000 songs and plays for 24 hours on a single charge.  The Sansa Fuze has a slot for an SD card, and it retails for around $75-$80.

Polaroid i634:  Here’s a digital camera with nice capabilities for the price.  The Polaroid i634 is a 6.0 megapixel digital camera with 3X digital zoom.  This budget friendly digital camera has a 16 MB internal flash memory and an SD card slot for storing more photos. The Polaroid i634 retails between $75 and $99.

Kodak EasyShare P720 photo frame:  Digital photo frames are all the rage, and this one provides a lot of features including a touch screen menu and two decorative mattes for matching your decor.  You can load your photos using a USB cord and your camera or a memory stick.  The Kodak EasyShare P720 retails around $95.

Can’t seem to keep your video camera dry? The Sanyo Xacti E1 digital video camera might be just the trick. It’s a waterproof video camera that can handle being submersed in 5 feet of water for up to 30 minutes at a time.

Using a 2GB SD card, the waterproof camera will record up to 10 hours of video or 4,000 still shots. The Xacti E1 video camera offers a 5x zoom lens,a 2.5 inch swiveling LCD monitor, and automatic image stabilization.

My favorite feature of this digital video camera is the ability to shoot still photos while filming video. Simply hit the shutter button while the video continues to roll. That means not having to choose between video and once in a lifetime photo opportunities.

The Xacti E1 digital video camera easily synchs with your PC, offering drag and drop options for moving and saving videos.

Wanting to bump up the quality of your digital photography?  The Canon Rebel XS digital camera is a digital playground for both amateur and professional digital photographers.  The new digital camera features a 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor is enables you to take extremely high quality digital photos that can even be super-sized into posters or other large printing projects.  In addition to a 2.5 inch LCD display, the Canon  Rebel XS digital camera has a built-in EOS integrated cleaning system, an automatic cleaning sensor and comes with the Canon EF-S lens.  The camera works with SD or SDHC memory cards and retails for around $699.

If you’re rarely separated from your iPod, you might want to check out these new protective cases. Made by Griffin Technology, the The FlexGrip adds a textured grip to the back of your iPod and includes a static peel off protector for the screen. The FlexScreen includes the same textured grip plus a hard polycarbonate screen protector . The FlexGrip protective case is available for iPod nano and iPod touch and the FlexScreen is available for iPod nano only. Both iPod cases retail for $14.99 and allow full access to all your iPod jacks and controls.

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Capture those Jacques Cousteau moments with these new, waterproof cameras by SeaLife. without worrying about destroying your digital camera. Or get vivid, high resolution evidence of the existence of sea monsters, just before your ship is capsized. You can be certain your camera will survive the ordeal.