This might sound like a sales pitch or something, but I'm being 100% sincere when I say that the is the greatest thing I've ever owned. I care about you, so I want you to own one as well. The deal is fine—25% off isn't the steepest price chop, but it's nothing to sneeze at either—but the important part is that you get this camera.

It's worth it at full price. Most tech products are designed to make your life better, but they rarely succeed. Once the allure of the new wears off, they become just another set of batteries to charge.

The GoPro is different. It improved my life. I like taking pictures and video with my GoPro so much that I've been going to interesting places I wouldn't have, just to have something to photograph.

I went to a skateboard park in Inglewood with my friend Bill and we hung out with professional skateboarder . His friend called me "Big Dog." I wouldn't have done that, were it not for the camera.

I also went to this beautiful Buddhist temple in North Hollywood and became enlightened. Not really, but the boat noodle soup I ate in the parking lot food court was so spicy and delicious I came fairly close. The GoPro Hero 12 is tiny and light, and you can mount it to literally anything.

It's waterproof, so you can even take it into the ocean in Santa Barbara and make tiny waves look extremely dramatic with slow motion: I took nighttime bike rides to check out the fast-motion: These are the best things I've done lately. If the 5.3K60 Ultra HD Video, 27MP Ph.