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DLO Home Dock

The DLO HomeDock Deluxe is an iPod dock that lets you view and select your iPod's music on your TV screen. The Dock lets you view current song information and navigate playlists, artists and albums from the sofa.

Looks like I will have to get one!

Here are the facts as I copied them from DLO's web site.

• Shipping March 2006
• Easily connect any dockable iPod to your Home Stereo & TV
• View and navigate iPods music directly on your TV screen
• Works with ALL Dockable iPods, including iPod nano and Video iPod
• Plays iPod videos on large screen TV via AV connection or S-Video
• View picture slideshows with music on your big screen TV
• Control everything from the sofa with the included 20 Button Remote Control
• Fully Powers and Charges iPod while in use
• Includes all necessary cables incl. AC Power Supply and AV Cable

You can visit DLO here for more information.

Pocket Wine Selector

If you're someone who would like to know more about certain wines before ordering or buying them beforehand, try this: a pocket wine selector that gives you all kinds of wine-related information: ratings, reviews, prices, combinations with meals, and even a glossary. Now, this little gadget is something I wouldn't mind owning, and, for $35, I may just invest in it. If you're interested, go to BrandsOnSale.com.

Phillips Rollable Display

I am not sure what rock I was under when this news presented itself yesterday, but Polymer Vision, a subsidiary of Philips, is showing off a consumer rollable display, at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, this week. What information I can get is coming from Gadget Flash.

The prototype, called Readius, has a monochrome 5-inch QVGA display with four grey levels that can show maximum two images per second; colour screens with quick move images aren't possible yet.

The screen has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and a high contrast, so it’s also readable in bright daylight.

The display is only 100µm thin and when rolled up has it a diameter of only 7.5mm. It also keeps showing the last image on the screen when you turn off the device.

On the IFA-exhibition Polymer Vision wants to check the wishes of the consumers and demonstrate the adequacy of the technology for the mobile market. Polymer Vision doesn’t want to put this product on the market by themselves, but they are searching for partners and investors. The first devices with this technology should be on the market within 2 years.

I will post more about this development when I can get more information.

Update: You can read to your geek hearts content about this disply and other products that this wonderful company envisions at www.polymervision.nl.

And even more information on the future of rollable displays from ArsTechnica.

The updated picture above is from LetsGoDigital, who has a bit more hands on information on the new Philips Rollable Display.

Solar Backpack

Here's an item for the person who wants to enjoy the great outdoors but still wants the electronic comforts of home: namely, his techno-gadgets. This backpack has solar panels sewn into it and can recharge some of the smaller electronic items (cell phones, cameras, and such). This might seem a bit extravagant to some, but, if you've ever been out hiking or camping and forgotten to charge up your phone, you can see the advantage to having this item around. To learn more, click here or visit the online store at MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art.