Hi guys,

Maybe some of you have a clever idea of solving this.

Whilst our stuff is under way to NZ, the wife and I will be travelling criss cross via Africa and Asia for 6 weeks and see a bit of the world rather than being homeless bums :)

I'm a keen photo and videographer and typically come back with several thousands of photos and a good 100~200GB of HD video.

On most holidays so far I've always had access to a laptop, travelling in "safe" Western countries.
But now it's 6 weeks of us and our backpacks and I don't really want to pack my 17" laptop.
First of all cause it's bulky and inconvenient to lug around everywhere and secondly because it's prone to theft. The thought of losing it in a random African country's airport security check or when we store our backpacks in a hostels storage cupboard makes me think twice on bringing it.

Then again, in case one of the cameras somehow gets lost or stolen I would lose all the photos on it... SO .. I'm planning to bring a 500GB USB2 HD that I have, it's very compact robust and certainly not a nuisance to carry around.

The problem I'm facing is how do I easily copy all the photos & videos from my cameras onto the portable HD without a computer?
Are there any specialised devices that can do this??