Public Appeal

I have a mess of negatives and slides I want to turn into JPG files. Flying back from Pittsburgh recently, I was flipping through the SkyMall catalog and I saw this thing advertised. It's a Digital Picture Converter from Hammacher Schlemmer. I thought I'd ask if anyone reading this has ever tried one of these…or anything else they thought worked well. I don't need editing software. I just need to turn slides and negatives into digital images. Any recommendations?