If pictures of ravaged, dismantled gadgets makes you feel squeamish, you might want to go to another, more tame post. This poor SD card was ravaged by the owners dog after it was spooked by a pet parrot flying out of its cage.

In a disastorous turn of events, the owners SD Card fell to the ground, at which time the suspected dog ripped it to shreds. The dog was promptly beat. Funeral services will be held later in the week. The SD Card was 1 year old and is survived by the two other cards that it was bought with. — Andrew Dobrow

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Apple has done a gorgeous job integrating the iPod to be compatible with both PCs and Macs. But one feature that would be cool to have that PC users might find difficult, is directly transferring photos from a SD card directly to your iPod’s drive. There are ways to do it, whether it be through syncing (which is unreasonably annoying when you only want a few pictures uploaded), or just shoving a SD card into the charger port on the iPod until it breaks (which while is much less annoying, never seems to work), but never a true way to add only the pictures you want, directly to your iPod.

Sakar International’s iAlbum is a little accessory that allows you to transfer photos from an SD card directly into your iPod. One cool benefit of having something like this that comes to mind, is that sharing pictures with friends can be a hell of a lot easier now. If you are out with a friend who is snapping pictures left and right, pictures in which you want but know your friend isn’t reliable enough to e-mail to you, just whip out the iAlbum and transfer away. We could think of more useful tools for the iPod, but for the active hipster always on the go, iAlbum could be a god send. — Andrew Dobrow

iAlbum to allow iPod photo transfers from SD, Memory Stick [iLounge]

Here is every 15 year old peeping toms dream. A set of binoculars that lets you take photos of whatever you happen to be staring at. Whether it be trees and nature or your neighbor’s window, the Pro Viewer gets the job done. The binoculars feature a 8x non-digital zoom and a 2.1 mega pixel camera with a resolution of 1600 x 1200. Not the top of the technology spectrum, but we can assure you that binoculars look a lot less incriminating then a digital camera if say, your neighbor’s father caught you looking in his daughters window from a tree like in Back To The Future. And with a nice edition of an SD card slot, you can keep those pictures clicking all night.

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