h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just bought the coolest Christmas present for my daughter! It's a very small digital video camera (about the size of two cassette tapes stacked one on top of the other), with voice & mpg recording capabilities. 4 megapixel photos! Yes!!! And it comes with a tripod and earphones, and an extra memory card. She can store 1000 photos, or 20 minutes of video or 800 songs on it!

I'm so excited - cause she's gonna love it! I'm sneaky too - because she wanted a digital camera for Christmas and I laughed out loud and said "yeah right - like anyone can afford that". So she really doesn't think she's going to get one.

And the best thing is that it wasn't very expensive. I bought if off of one of the home shopping channels - so I got to see them use it and disply the photos and video that they took with it.

I can't wait until Christmas day!

Now, as long as she's not lurking around on your journal, you'll be all set!

The prices are really coming down on digital cameras - I think when we bought ours maybe 4 years ago, the prices were about twice what they were when we got one for Shorty+ a year or so ago, and hers has more features. Now, I'd imagine they've probably come down even further.

Yes - I can't believe how much they've come down from when I first bought my digital camera!

I can remember when calculators first came out! They were so expensive! Now you can get one for a couple of bucks!

I have several solar calculators. They have been incalculably useful;.

Well Paul, when we nuke the world and blot out the sun - you'll just have to invest in the battery kind. I don't know what you'll do with your solar calculators then - seeing as how they won't make very good toilet paper...

He'll have to carry a torch around to power it