I love my vosonic. A 60GB HD with inbuilt card reader. Means I can take shot after shot on 1GB card as it fills up swap in another 1GB card and put filled one in reader. A portable 60GB HD also comes in handy when on holiday pre-loaded a few movies or mp3 files. Sits nicely alongside the laptop.
Guess the nearest thing nowadays is something like this:
http://www.memoryforless.co.uk/store...nt%3Dfirefox-a