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All Eyes are on Photokina

Will Pentax be coming out with a new dSLR? Is that new "Destined Evolution" Web site ad put out by Canon an intro to a new model of the 5D as Engadget prognosticates? Just where is digital photography's new technology headed? Many answers to these questions will be provided during Photokina from Sept 23 to 28 in Cologne, Germany.

Photokina is a big deal. It happens only once every two years and it's the place where many new products are staged and introduced. How important is it? Well, 6000 journalists join 160,000 visitors to review everything there is to know about image capture, storage, processing, transmission and output.

The range of imaging products and services displayed at Photokina is dizzying--cameras, camcorders, digital storage media, printers, kiosk system, home cinema, digital frames and albums, lighting systems, studio equipment, publishing, labs, interactive presentation systems, networks and video/audio technology. For more about Photokina 2008, there's a daily, updated report on the fair with interesting product entries such as the LG KC910, the only 8 megapixel multimedia phone with a full touchscreen interface, the Nikon D90 and the Sony DSLR-A900.

Top 3 USB Flash Drives from Wize.com

Seems like everyone these days is buying a USB flash drive. Just in case if you don't have one or don't know what it is, the answer is here at wize.com's blog. The USB flash drive is a device that is removable and rewritable, weigh less than 2 ounces (56 g) with storage capacities that run from 64 MB to 32 GB or more. It's interesting to note, too, that some allow 1 million write or erase cycles and have 10-year data retention.

Here are the best 5 USB flash drives from wize.com:

1. SANDISK 4 GB CRUZER TITANIUM U3 W/READY BOOST USB FLASH DRIVE (pictured above)
2. SANDISK 8GB CRUZER CONTOUR FLASH DRIVE USB U3 TECHNOLOGY 25MBPS
3. SONY MICRO VAULT CLASSIC  

My Passport Studio Mini HD 320 GB

Hey Mac users, here's a hard drive that's just too good to pass up. The only thing you'll worry about after buying this thing is misplacing it as it's rather small, 2.5-inches to be exact. And, even more surprising, is that they weigh only 5-ounces!

At $220, the 320 GB My Passport supports both USB and Firewire connections.

And, it comes with a 5-year warranty.  That's what worries me. What happens after 5 years? Does the device self implode?

In reality folks, in order to make sure your data stays around for a generation, you're going to have to download the files from one external hard drive to another every couple of years to ensure that it stays around for awhile.