The best thing about using the latest Kodak EasyShare digital photography system is that you no longer have to lie to your relatives. Over the holidays, when your Aunt Betty looks at the LCD display on your camera and says, "Oh, can you send me a print of that?," instead of saying "I will!" (when deep down you know you'll probably never even get around to uploading the shot to your computer), you can just hand her a print right then and there. This is how it works: Take a picture with the Kodak EasyShare LS753 digital camera, stick it on top of the EasyShare Printer Dock Plus, press the "print" button, and within 60 seconds you'll have a sharp 4" x 6" color print on Kodak paper. No cables to connect, no memory cards to eject. You don't even need a computer. I got both the camera and the printer out of their boxes and all set up and working together in just a few minutes, while barely glancing at the "Start Here!" quckie instruction sheet. This is smart, intuitive, idiot-proof product design. And the LS753 is by far the coolest-looking EasyShare camera yet (previous designs in this series have been pretty clunky). It has a sexy little all-aluminum body, a pro-quality Schneider-Kreuznach 2.8x optical zoom lens, and a 5.0 megapixel sensor. You can also transfer pictures from the camera to the computer—and it'll recharge your camera while you're at it.

The 4" x 6" paper and printer cartridges come together in one box—together they'll yield exactly 40 prints—and you can usually find them on sale for under $25, which means prints average about 50 cents each. You can order the camera itself on sale for about $310 (discounted from $399) from Amazon.com, and the printer dock is just under $200.