I'm kind of obsessed with my digital camera, and I take a million pictures wherever I go. It's pretty lame to leave them all just sitting on my computer, but a regular photo album doesn't seem high-tech enough. Plus, I have bad handwriting, so the caption thing never works out well.

I tried out the MediaStreet eMotion Talking Photo Jukebox ($49.99). This photo-viewing system comes with 72 pages to hold your photos and a battery-powered "jukebox"(the disc-shaped thing in the photo). Using the jukebox, you can record 8-second audio captions on the pages and then play them back.

There's no photo album; the pages are loose and come in a nice filing box, so you can listen to your captions in any order you want. You put your picture on a page, stick the page into the jukebox, and record the message. Then, every time you stick that page back into the jukebox, it plays your caption for you. The double-sided pages can record a different message on each side. But the thing is, you have to physically place each page into the jukebox, one at a time. It's kind of a lot of work.

Audio quality wasn't very good - there was lots of background noise, and when my roommate recorded a message, her voice sounded a lot like mine (even though we sound nothing alike in person). But I could understand all the words on the messages, and the 8-second recordings seem long enough.

The best applications we came up with: 1. Telling a photo story. Your audience won't get bored, since they'll have to work so hard to keep putting the pages in the player. 2. Making sure your significant other always has you on their mind - he or she can look at your picture every day, then listen to your cheerful voice for 8 wonderful seconds.