If your digital camera takes SmartMedia or Compact Flash, you know that those memory cards are expensive. Taking your camera on a trip can be a problem because you can run out of memory. I bought the Iomega FotoShow to solve this problem. It's a small device you can use to dump your pictures from memory card to zip disk without the need for a computer. Then simply erase and reuse your memory card.
Zip disks are much cheaper than memory cards.
The FotoShow functions as a Zip drive when you connect it to your PC via a USB port. On my Windows 2000 machine, I didn't need to install any drivers from Iomega for the computer to see it as a drive. The FotoShow is a little bigger than I would like, and its power supply is fairly bulky, but I don't plan to take this unit hiking, so it's not really a problem. I have found that I end up taking many more photos on trips than I did before I purchased this unit. If you use a digital camera, but like to keep a physical photo album, I found something really cool for you.