Despite its jaunty name, the pocket-sized PoGo doesn't boing up and down (shame) but it will print the photos trapped inside your mobile phone (wirelessly) or digital camera (via USB) in seconds, wherever you may roam. Best of all, cutting-edge thermal technology means you'll never have to buy an ink cartridge again. Smile!
Price: £19.99 from Firebox
Despite its jaunty name, the pocket-sized PoGo doesn't boing up and down (shame) but it will print the photos trapped inside your mobile phone (wirelessly) or digital camera (via USB) in seconds, wherever you may roam. Best of all, cutting-edge thermal technology means you'll never have to buy an ink cartridge again. Smile!
Price: £19.99 from Firebox
Why struggle with old-fashioned photo albums when you can show off over 40,000 pics with this ultra-sleek, supremely portable photo viewer. Just upload pics directly from your digital camera, memory card, flash drive or computer and enjoy the show on the ALBUM’s crisp 7” screen.
Price: £169.99 from Firebox
If your normal home movies are about as badly put together as Pete Doherty’s tailoring, what you need is the world’s simplest and easiest camcorder. Trying to catch those beautiful one-off moments without the fuss and bother – and cost – of a heavy-duty model used to mean trading in quality footage for convenience. No longer, traveller.
Enter the bad boys of mobile movie making: the Flip camera range. They’re a pair of easy-peasy digital video cameras that have already taken America by storm. Their trick is to be like Herman Munster: simple, sturdy, and with a heart of gold. The Flip Ultra II and Flip Mino cameras are both so simple to use that anyone from 5 to 105 can be a miniature director: press the large button that says ‘on’, press the button that says ‘start’ and hocus pocus – you’re the cul-de-sac’s very own Stanley Kubrick all of a sudden.
Price: £119.99 from Firebox
Remember when camcorders were bigger than Volvo estates and heavier than anvils? No, neither do we. We chose to forget about the humungous contraptions the day digital camcorders hit the scene. And looking, nay squinting, at the Muvi Micro and Atom Camcorders, who can blame us?
Impossibly titchy (we’re talking biro top here, folks), this ludicrously peasy movie cam is set to redefine the genre. One button does the lot. Moreover, at only 4cm x 2cm x 2cm (Atom), it’s the smallest camcorder in the world. You can even wear it around your neck and use it as a webcam. Try doing that with your old tape-munching camcorder. Actually, don’t. You’ll hurt yourself and break your computer.
Despite its eye-rubbing weeny-ness the Muvi records in VGA quality (640×480) equivalent to the best selling (and comparatively enormous) Mino and Ultra by Flip. Incredible! Videos are stored on the included 2GB Micro SD card, but for those of you who prefer real epics the Muvi can handle cards up to 8GB.
Wannabe movie moguls with a penchant for boxing gloves (well you never know) can rest easy because the Muvi has a special VOX mode that lets you start/stop recording using your voice (or any other noise over 65 decibels). “Annnnd….action!” It’s ideal for those moments when your hands aren’t to…erm, hand, or you feel like going on a Christian Bale style rant.
Price: £14.99 from Firebox