Technological Advances

Maybe this is a weird thing to blog about, but here goes. Today, I picked up our latest technological gadget at the post office. It's a so-called travel disk that you can use to bring large amounts of data along with you.

That description doesn't really make the thing sound all that interesting, but the catch is that we can use it to store pictures on from our cameras. This will come in handy in Greece, because the memory cards in our cameras can only hold around 4oo pictures at a time. Needless to say, that won't be enough for a two week trip (when we went to the carnival, I shot almost 400 pictures in one day).

The memory cards from our cameras plug directly into this thing, so there's no need for a computer to transfer the pictures. We ordered 100 Gb harddisk, but oddly enough a 120 Gb version arrived in the mail. I'm not going to complain about that.

120 Gigabytes of memory means that the disk can contain roughly 60.000 pictures in a decent resolution. That will of course be more than enough. We won't have to worry a bit about running out of space. And we can just sort all the pictures when we come home, instead of having to delete on the go in order to free up space.

Here's a picture of it.

I'm not going to claim that this thing is beautiful, but at least it's very handy. I seem to recall that the first computer my family got in 1993 had 16 Megabytes of memory. That means that it would be able to store a grand total of eight pictures from a modern digital camera. Furthermore, that old computer was huge. This device fits in the palm of my hand and holds approximately 8000 times as many pictures (o, brave new world!).

Ok, enough techno-babble for now. Drive safely...