Have you been trying to bring your mother forward into the digital age? DigitalFoci has a nifty little keychain called the Pocket Album that we think fits the bill for a cool Mother's Day gift that has a great tech edge.

This product has a 1.5 inch color LCD that displays photos. Its 8 megabytes of internal memory stores up to 74 photos, which are easy to upload and swap out using the accompanying software. The rechargeable batteries provide nine hours of viewing time, which should be more than enough time for mom to show off pictures of you and her grandkids to all her friends. The automatic slideshow feature makes it easy to review all the pictures or a manual review lets you choose one to show all the time.

Although April 22 is Earth Day, here at BehindTheBuy we've always got recycling on our minds. That's why we thought you'd like to know a little more about how important it is to properly dispose of one of the most common throwaway items in homes and offices: the printer cartridge.

Prices on ink jet and laser printers have come down so much during the past 10 years that many people now consider them to be commodity items. You see them in home offices everywhere. But did you know it can take up to 450 years for a discarded printer cartridge to decompose? That's a mighty long time. With more than 350 million cartridges thrown out every year, that's a mountain of some pretty tough waste building up all the time.

While the latest news in automobiles is focused on hybrid cars, rising gas prices and the introduction of the SmartCar to U.S. shores, what about some good news for the rest of us who already have a vehicle and don't plan to buy a new one anytime soon?

We got a look this week at a great device from CarShield that provides a car owner with everything from updates on diagnostics to the car's location, all via text or email messages.

We're not knocking advances made by the folks at OnStar or other monitoring solutions, but one of the benefits is that if your car was manufactured anytime after 1995, the CarShield device will likely be an easy install.

We're often on the go so having portable, easy-to-use products has a great appeal. As we all approach that time each year to file taxes it's important to think for a moment about protecting all our personal information, and one type of device that helps do just that is a paper shredder.

Of course, in this information age, keeping data safe goes well beyond tearing paper into little strips. News breaks every day of companies that lose customer data, spilling names, account numbers, social security numbers and more into the hands of those who would do harm. But often we are most vulnerable in the simplest way: the important documents that, after they serve their purpose to us at home, end up in the garbage can.