My New Baby!

Before leaving Manhattan today, Sam and I, my mom and her cousin visited the Apple Store SoHo. We'd been there the day before, Sam and I, to buy a housewarming gift, and I saw this bit of shiny-shiny. It's like a ray gun; it's a 3.2 megapixel digital still camera, along with a digital video recorder that has an MPEG-4 compressor in hardware. It also comes with a 512MB SD card, which holds approx 30 minutes of video, or about a bazillion still pics.

The photos it takes aren't nearly as beautiful as those from my Canon Powershot G2, the video isn't quite DV-quality, but the quality is plenty for taking snaps and for shooting video clips. And it fits in my pocket, something neither the G2 nor our DV cam does.

Of course, Mac OS X sees the camera and starts up iPhoto, ready to import the still images. The camera also shows up on the desktop as a mounted volume, where I can drag the MPEG-4 video off of it into my Movies folder.

I am.......the God of Gadgets.