Digital Foci has introduced the Picture Porter Elite portable digital photo album with 40GB and 80GB hard drives and a memory card reader. The built-in memory card slots let users copy and archive photos directly from any digital camera memory card, without the need for peripheral attachments or cables. Users can instantly save and view digital photos and video on its hard drive, without worrying about limited memory card space.

The large, 3.6-inch LCD screen allows users to rotate, zoom, pan, view EXIF information and play picture slide shows. The device also can be connected to a television set for sharing photos with family and friends.

Picture Porter Elite supports the PictBridge standard, allowing printing directly to any PictBridge-compliant printer without a computer.The device works with all popular media card formats, and can double as a portable MP3 and video player. With built-in microphone and recording capability, Picture Porter Elite can be used as a voice recorder or to record videos straight from TV or any other video source using high-compression MPEG-4 encoding.

Picture Porter Elite weighs 11 ounces, including hard drive and battery, with dimensions of 5.3 by 3.1 by 1.1 inches. It has a suggested price of $499.