Well, now! It’s not often that your spouse suggests just the right birthday gift before you even hint, but today I got this e-mail from my hubby:

To: Gail
From: Ken
Subject: A Have-to-Have

It looks like for your birthday you’ll need to get a new Flip Video Mino mini-camcorder to fit with all the other stuff in your bag of e-gadgets.

Ah, he’s so right! And that birthday is coming up in just a couple of months…

Recommended by none other than the Wall Street Journal’s Walter S. Mossberg, here are a few of the product highlights:

• Price: $180
• Max record: 60-minutes (2GB flash memory)
• USB adapter on top of the camera
• Touch-sensitive buttonsability to lock the delete button
• Mute all camera sounds to record silently
• Rechargeable batteries - charges automaticaly when connected to a computer
• Built-in software enables editing and publishing to MySpace, YouTube, and AOL Video