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I recently recommended some great gadgets for house hunting that people should consider.  Now, I received a couple emails from that article, from people asking what gadgets I use specifically.  I started to respond, but realized that I am not your typical person.

I’m a bit of an early adopter gadget freak and the tools that I use are not necessarily going to be the tools that are right for everyone else.  I had a bit of an epiphany this weekend however when my family and I went to the beach.  It was my wife and three kids, plus my mother and my wife’s parents.

Both my mother and my father-in-law both used slightly different models of the same digital cameras.  Neither one of them are gadget people.  They both resisted getting cell phones for years, my father-in-law ultimately accepting a cell phone when I bought a phone for him and added it to our plan.

Gadgets and computers are not impossible for them to use, but they definitely don’t go out of their way to add another gadget to their bag of tools.

They both use a Kodak Easy Share camera (my mom with the 7 megapixel version shown above, and my father-in-law with a 5 megapixel version that’s a bit older).  They also both use these cameras a great deal.

The camera is easy to use, easy to get fantastic pictures with, and easy to get those computers onto a computer (just set the camera on a docking bay (a little holder/stand thing and it automatically zaps the computer to your hard drive without any other effort required).

Now, this camera is also pretty cheap.  I might pay several hundred dollars for a camera or more, but my mother and father-in-law (possibly wiser) will not.  This gem of a camera is less than $200 and can be found on sale for about $185 or better from time to time.

I am going to look back over my previous recommendation and see if I can tune things up for non-early adopters next.  For people that buy the latest gadgets the tips are solid.  But for people like my mom, I need to check it to find the good buys and the easy easy easy and practical devices as well.

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