Well my current pair of shoes are just about done given the fact that my soles are just about to fall out. So I recently picked up this pair as seen here:

You can see the link to amazon here: link

My camera also came to a premature end due to some Tucsonian dust that got inside the lens, leaving nice spots on all of my pictures. Deciding then that it was time for an upgrade, I splurged a bit for a camera that should last a few more years until the end of grad school:

You can check out the review here.