One of the neatest recent inventions for a computer is the flash drive. These are so cool, and nice to have. They range in prices and storage size, but really from just two years ago the prices have gone dramatically down. These can be used by people for all sorts of different things. Such as storage of pictures that you may want to take along on vacation to show family, this can be done instead of emailing the pictures. Or maybe businesses that have a proposal that an individual can take home and work on, not that a lot of places do this, but it can be done now.

These very small flash drives hold a ton of information, compared to the now ancient floppy drives. And in most cases they hold more information then a cd can hold. Plus they are much smaller and usually have a strap that you can hang them on your neck.

Another example of good usage of these flash drives are writers who want to store their stories on another backup just in case their computer crashes. Flash drives like stated before can store as little as 216 mb all the way up to 5 GB or more. Prices can range from $10 to $100 or more. It really depends on what you want to store and how often you're going to need to get to it. Really in general it's just a good way to back up your files to make sure that you don't loose them in an computer accident.

Another great thing that many people are purchasing are a web cam/digital camera combination. I only state this because at Wal-mart I recently bought one of these for so cheap, I was really surprised that it worked when I got home. It's very small maybe measuring 2" x 3.5", and it cost $20. It works great, the pictures aren't bad at all, and as far as a web cam it works perfectly fine.

Overall it would be a great gift idea if someone doesn't have a web cam or a digital cam. The only thing you should keep in mind is that don't buy it for a smaller kid, even though it's inexpensive, it would be easy for them to lose the camera. But at that price is it that big of a deal?

Or you can get a regular web cam, those are cool too. They have them in all different shapes and sizes; well most of them are smaller. But you have round ones that are cute, and just plan old square ones. You will pay around $30 to $50 dollars on most of the different cameras, unless your going for a top of the line web cam then you might pay a bit more.

These are only three accessories that you can get for your computer; there are so many other choices these days too. The different digital cameras that you can get, hard drives that can go on the outside of your computer, or external drives as they are better known, speakers that you can get, microphones if you want to talk on your computer to someone else. So many cool things, it's just what you want to buy.