wiDock Frees Your iPod from Your Computer

By Geoff Duncan December 4, 2006

wiDock Frees Your iPod from Your Computer

Another day, another iPod accessory: If you’ve wanted to hook your iPod up to your home stereo or television—and maybe even purchased a separate iPod doc or charging station for that purpose—you may have been been frustrated that you have to undock the iPod, take it over to your computer, and re-dock the iPod just to load new music or video. If so, then Silex Technology has a solution for you. Their new wiDock enables users to connect their iPod to a television and/or home stereo, while wirelessly synchronizing with a computer using using 802.11b/g Wi-Fi instead of USB. The idea is that users can dock their iPod in their living room and gain all the advantages of hooking their iPod up to their home entertainment gear without losing easy synchronization and updating of their iPod’s contents from their home computer

The Silex wiDock offers AC power (so the iPod charges while docked, offers 5 adapters for connecting with iPods, iPod nanos, and iPod minis (but, like all dock products, not iPod shuffles), and can connect to peripheral AV gear using RCA audio output and S-Video. In addition to 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (with support for WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption), the wiDock sports 100Base-T Ethernet, just in case you already have a wired network running to your home entertainments setup.

The wiDock is priced at $149, and required Mac OS X 10.2.7 or later, or Windows 2000/XP.

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