Best Digital Picture Frame for Mother's Day

Looking for the best digital photo frame for your mom? The T-Mobile Cameo could be the big hit this Mother's Day season. It's the first picture frame that you won't have to teach your mom how to upload photos to. How? It's connected to the T-Mobile wireless data network. You just email or MMS photos right to the frame's address and they show up.

Think about it. Your mom could see photos from your vacation or the kids' plays and sports events before you even get home. 

The Cameo isn't available online yet, but it's now $39.99 in T-Mobile stores. The wireless service is now only $1.99 a month.

Reviews here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1778

http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/11/25/boing-boing-gadgets.html

Photography gifts for the Etsy online craft seller

If you're shopping for someone crafty that already or might sell their work on Etsy, taking a good product photo will be a big help to their business. A small light tent like this one solves a lot of lighting and background problems for them. It has a nice smooth background paper. The white sides of the light tent diffuse the light to eliminate harsh reflections. It comes with two small lights, which help eliminate shadows and get the color right.

Nintendo DS Lite

The Nintendo DS is pretty amazing. I've been surprised how many adults enjoy playing games on a DS. Even Gabe from Penny Arcade's grandmother plays.

It's a lot of entertainment for $130. What's even cooler is that it simplifies gift-giving once someone has one. A $20-40 DS game is right in most people's price target.

It comes in red-n-black, black, white, and pink.

Handmade Unique Craft Gifts

Etsy is the perfect source for a hand-made artsy craft gift. Much better than wandering your local flea market. You can shop by color, price and a bunch of other options. Just flip through it until you find some $30 thing you think you can give Mom and call it a day. Or you could flip through Martha Stewart magazines for a few hours and apply your finely honed elementary school craft techniques to create your own masterpiece.

Deathtrap!

These are perfect for when your car goes all Christine on you... Or as a gift for your older relatives -- the ones who read the true life "Trapped in an Underwater Car" stories in every other month's Reader's Digest and obsess about them.

The $13 Swiss+Tech BodyGard is the latest of keychain car escape gadget. It has the usual glass breaker and seatbelt cutter but it adds a flashlight and an emergency siren and flasher.


The $9 ResQMe Keychain just has the basic glass breaker and seatbelt cutter, but it also doesn't have any batteries to go dead. Some people recommend attaching one to an easy to reach spot inside the car rather than your keys.

The $14 Life Hammer is the original tool in this category. It attaches securely inside your car so it'll always be there.