On almost the same day last month, two similar products came out that seem inevitable in retrospect. They’re point-and-shoot cameras with the Android operating system built right in, so all (well, most) of the apps that Android phones can run, these things can run.

There’s photo sharing, of course. But there’s also social networking, games, organizers, office document editors, all kinds of stuff. Smartphones all have cameras built into them, so putting Android on an actual camera camera with a larger zoom lens and capable image sensor just makes sense.

An Aug. 15 report from Strategy Analytics, Inc. predicts that the amount of money spent on physical music media like CDs and vinyl records will be surpassed by money spent on streaming and download services this year in the United States.

That’s right: We Americans will spend more in places like Spotify and iTunes than in good old-fashioned record stores this year. It’s a big turnaround from the early days of MP3s, when record labels feared that file-sharing would bankrupt the music industry.

 No matter how fast the electronic interface got, drives were still limited by the speed at which the disk rotated. For consumer drives, that’s usually 5,400 or 7,200 revolutions per minute (RPM). Some high-end server drives spin as fast as 15,000 RPM, but they need to be installed in a well-cooled chassis. The average desktop or laptop just wouldn’t cut it, and they’re expensive anyway.