Who needs slides? You can bore ‘em with these cool cameras

Things like the sweet, banana-like smell of school quizzes run off on a mimeograph machine. A Xerox or a form on a computer screen don’t give you that same warm, fuzzy feeling.

Sometimes the things you lose may not be sweet but are still the source of great memories, like Dad trapping people in the living room and bringing out the slide projector and unfurling the screen to show pictures of the family vacation to a squirming, captive audience. There’s no need for that anymore with Facebook and Picasa and Flickr and photos and videos attached to e-mail.

Still, my favorite new gadget of 2009 made it to the top of my list just because it recaptures that nostalgia and allows you to trap audiences anywhere — at other people’s homes, in co-worker’s cubicles, in the men’s room at the rest stop off the turnpike. The possibilities to annoy and bore people are endless and hilarious. The Nikon S1000pj looks like an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, but it can project still images and videos on walls anywhere. Also cool in a ’60s nostalgia way is the Fujifilm Finepix Real 30 W1 that takes 3-D pictures and displays them in 3-D instantly on its 2.8-inch screen.

$430, nikonusa.com, $600, fujifilmusa.com The Kindle DX is the biggest and best e-reader so far. Its ample, 9.7-inch screen is perfect for both pleasure reading and studying. It provides global wireless access to books, newspapers and magazines, full PDF documents, Internet access, free book samples, rotatable views, a read-out-loud option and your paper delivered electronically during the wee hours of the morning. Best of all, Amazon is selling bestselling books on all its Kindles at $9.99, a third of what they may cost in hardback, so if you do a lot of reading, it could pay for itself.

$489, amazon.com The iPhone 3GS makes the iconic device even better. The iPhone 3GS finally adds features it should have had in the beginning, like multimedia messaging, video recording, and voice dialing. It’s faster; and has better battery life. Its media features are still awe-inspiring. But it still is mediocre at best as a phone, with shaky call quality and uneven reception. AT&T is working hard, though, to improve its network.

$199 with two-year contract, AT&T stores, Best Buy, att.com It’s the first cell phone to run Google’s Android 2.0 operating system, which is a game-changer, so even though the Motorola Droid wouldn’t win a beauty contest with the iPhone, it’s a more intriguing device. It’s making up ground on the iPhone fast in terms of number of apps because of its open source approach, which allows more freedom and flexibility and creativity and ultimately will make it an even better product than the iPhone.

$199 with two-year contract, Verizon stores, Best Buy, Verizon.com Windows 7′s impressive design is a giant leap forward for Microsoft, threatening to challenge Apple. There’s a learning curb with the new taskbar and Aero Peek, but this OS is shockingly fun to use for something produced by Microsoft. It’s standard on new Microsoft computers, and my wife, who’s generally not exactly the first-adopter type, loves playing with it on her new laptop. The Toshiba Mini NB 205′s six-cell battery provides up to nine hours of unplugged power and the best keyboard of any netbook.

It has a 10.1-inch diagonal screen, an Intel atom N280 processor, 1 GB DDR 800MHz ram, upgradeable to 2 GB, 160 GB HDD storage, a memory card readers slot, 802.11 b/g wireless and 10/100 Ethernet, built in Skype, with a webcam, speaker and microphone.

$419, Best Buy, Toshiba .com The Zune HD is the first MP3 player with a tuner for HD radio, so it can stream clearer versions of local FM stations, In addition to digital only channels. It can also store and display high def video and, when placed in its dock, beam it to your TV.

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