Three Monkeys, Three Typewriters, Two Days

Noticeable luggage highly depends on the airports you're traveling to. In Frankfurt, having a Rimowa is like the new gray, but in Bangalore, anything that isn't tied in with a belt is off. Haven't seen a lot of Rimowas in the US.

I'm personally quite happy with the one I have, they're the bread-and-butter suitcases of Lufthansa crew, that's how I got to the brand. Doesn't make them exactly cheap, though, I guess.

Camera-wise, in the point & shoot range the main brands I look at are Canon and Panasonic. Those two are probably the most consistently good quality - hard to go wrong any model from them. Keep an eye on http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/ as they'll probably have some good group reviews of P&S models posted between now and Christmas.

I made my standard black suitcase more recognizable by putting white tape on all the handles. Crude, but effective.

Just plaster the suitcase with Firefox stickers.

Might as well be Opera or Safari stickers, as I believe bz uses Seamonkey.

I've actually been using different browsers on different machines, recently. But in any case, the "noticeable" is a bonus precisely because it's not hard to work around. The other criteria are more important.

FUJIFILM FinePix F70EXR is excellent... versatile, takes good photos etc. Not a typical more Mpixels must be better camara.

I bought american luggage brand, cheap and at Sears, not bad. Should be cheaper real soon too.

I got a Canon Powershot SD1000. Very easy to use camera, takes nice pictures too, much better than most cameras in the consumer space. This one I have is 7.1 megapixel. Fairly automatic, a few easy buttons to navigate. Not a hard menu to use. It fits well in a front or back pants pocket.

Most camera's have standard built in autofocus, zoom 3x+ which are good features to have, It has good video capture/mic at 320x240 or 640x480 resolution at about 24 to 30 fps. Its even got an easy button to switch between photo taking, video recording, view pictures/videos.

Hell, I even dropped it in the airport before a flight on tile from about 4 ft up, and it didn't turn on, but I got it fixed for free from canon and it was a great and fast turn around experience, and was fixed too, no questions asked why. They have service centers here in the states.

Most cameras use SD cards, some now even with SDHC (high capacity cards capable 4GB+ per card, but the cards are not usable without the SDHC compatible devices)

If you need SD Cards for a camera, go with SanDisk UltraII which are used for faster picture taking on the camera for that 1/2 second click. Don't ever settle for a standard flash,SD,XD card. Its like comparing USB1.0 to USB2.0. The Sandisk SD UltraII cards are much faster than standard ones. It helps on the i/o read/write speeds when taking pictures. Pic up a space too.. so in case you find video is your thing, it will be nice to have, since it take up many megs once you take a few minutes here and there.

Most cameras come with some USB dongle to plug into a PC, easy to use, as the SDCard basically looks like a another external drive to the computer, and a wall charger. Also look for a possible extra battery, even generics are fine, but battery life is like a laptop, it has a typical run off point before it goes dead w/warning. The good point is that recharge only takes about an hour or so.

Not sure what Canon has for mac support, but if mac can look at SD cards, then this should be no problem with a USB2.0 connection or SD card reader.

Though I've had my camera, and I do love it, I don't regret going with canon on this one.
Sony Coolpix is another decent camera and so are Nikons though, Nikon, Canon and Olympus are good even in the consumer space, sony is further down the quality chain. And I think Olympus uses a more proprietary memory card called xD, which I don't like the Olympus interface, picture quality was less on the Coolpix and Sony, well you know, they are always proprietary makers of electronics.

The canon just works, I'm happy with it.

Cheers!

My wife and I have four Samsonite cases. They are "hybrids" -- half hard-shelled, half soft (the fabric is called "Cordura", I think), quite durable and good. They have two good-sized wheels. I don't know if I'd say they are light or heavy, I don't have any comparison points.

The hard part is dark grey, the soft part comes in a range of colours, we have two burnt orange ones and two green ones, they aren't garish but are very easy to spot on luggage carousels.

They look a bit like this one:
http://shop.samsonite.com/Samsonite-Supra-Hybrid-Wheeled-Luggage/dp/B0013UQXCK?ie=UTF8&refinementHistory=brandtextbin%2Csubjectbin%2Ccolor_map%2Cprice%2Csize_name&searchNodeID=2235724011&field_launch-date=-1y&class=quickView&searchRank=salesrank&searchPage=1&field_browse=2235724011&searchSize=12&id=Samsonite%20Supra%20Hybrid%20Wheeled%20Luggage&field_availability=-1#

I can't find the exact model on the Samsonite site, it's possible we have older models that aren't available any more. The colours on the site are pretty restricted too, mostly black. You don't want a black case, everyone else has one.

The consensus best tiny camera these days is the Canon S90. Not cheap, though.