Last week I had the chance to play with three of Sony's latest Cyber-shots: the T77, T500, and T700 at their media/blogger event. For a guy who's last digital camera was a Canon PowerShot A70 from 2001 (it was revolutionary at that time mind you), these new point-and-clicks were gifts from the future. My favourite was the T700 (pictured above) mainly because it came with 4GB built-in memory. That makes absolute sense. No need to carry many storage cards and swap them around, just turn on and shoot. The other thing that fascinated me was the button-less back panel. Nothing there but a huge touchscreen. No it isn't like the the iPhone's pinch-to-zoom one, but Sony did a decent job is making full use of the real estate. Talking about touch screen, the T700 and T500 had good solid touch screens, but the T77 used a soft material, like the one on your laptop's LCD so that when you touch it, it produces those scary LCD ripples. Felt like I was going to damage the screen... and yes you were suppose to touch the screen. The last thing that thrilled me was the smile shutter. I know, tacky right? But it's amazingly fun! What it does is automatically snaps a photo of you when you smile. No pressing of the shutter release, just snaps on its own. There are just so many applications for it: wedding reception tables, candid shots at parties, etc. Oh and just one final point to gloat: I ended up winning a Sony DPF-D70 digital photo frame! So did DK, Esther, and Nadia! w00t!