Load Photos Straight to Your iPod

Loading photos to your iPod is easy when you're home, but if you're on vacation or away from your computer, transferring photos from your digital camera to your iPod is impossible unless you get yourself a device that bypasses the computer completely. The iWay is such a device. It simply plugs into the bottom of your iPod to gain a portal that lets you grab images from a standard SD card.

Why would you ever need this? Well now that digital cameras save photographs at higher resolutions, our memory cards fill up faster than ever.  I've been to trade shows where I literally take hundreds of photographs, often filling up both onboard memory and several memory cards within hours. If you're on vacation, the last thing you want to do is delete photos to make room for more.  

The iWave, and similar devices, transform your iPod into a photo bank that holds all your photos until you're ready to download them to your computer. Instead of carrying several memory cards, you just carry one iWave. It also gives you the option of erasing everything on the card, once uploaded, to free up space for new photos. Our family reunion is next month, and I think this device will cost me less than if I buy several memory cards. The device retails for about $70.