Very cool. For digital cameras, though, I think the right answer is these new solid state 1GB CF cards. I just had a trip-and-drop-my-camera incident that completely killed my Microdrive (it makes really awful sounds when you try to read from it). Luckily, this happened in the morning just after I'd downloaded everything to my laptop. The camera itself fared somewhat better, but the drop managed to break two tiny plastic switches that the camera uses to detect that the battery is loaded and that the CF door is closed. Break those switches and the camera refuses to turn itself on.

It's now off to Canon for repairs. Hopefully they won't charge me an arm and a leg to fix it.