Correction - mine is a different model. It's the WS-311M that has mp3 playback.

I got one of these recorders about a month ago, and it works great. It will also play mp3 files, so you can pre-load it with audio you need to listen to in the field. I was recently watching a press conference on TV, and counted no fewer than 15 of these in reporters' outstretched hands.

We didn't see this family, but a couple of years ago we saw THIS Elastigirl, who really captured the character.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodilynn/26913701/

Mark,
Very cool - they did a great job evoking the feel of a '50s B-Movie trailer. I'm a big fan of stock footage films. In Seattle stockstock.org holds a semi-annual competition, where entrants are given an identical 30 minutes of random footage and have to craft a coherent short film. Feel free to check out my entry from the 2005 competition http://www.atomfilms.com/film/american_infant.jsp

If you want to see a bunch of microcars from the Bruce Weiner collection here in L.A., they are the current featured exhibit at the Peteresen Automotive Museum at Fairfax and Wilshire. My wife and I went to see the exhibit a few weeks ago and it presents a really great history of the microcar from the early 1900s to the present. Of course now we want one even more.

The display runs through Feb. 3rd. http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?docid=1057