Touch pads are small pads that allow you to use your finger tip to move the pointer. The Obit is also great for lefties. There are also many other good choices for input devices. IBM offers a mouse that has a pointer that can scroll through documents without using the scroll bar. There are many other great hardware gifts.
Quick cams allow users to capture video images and engage in live video conferencing.
With Buz you can take your home videos, digitize them to your hard drive and edit offline. Depending on your software, it also allows you to add a wide range of digital effects to your videos. It used to cost several thousand dollars for a card that could do this. A Zip drive is a removable hard drive. Each disk holds 100 megs.