Why can’t anyone come up with a decent iPod interface for cars?

If you read my previous post, you probably suspect that I went ahead with the purchase.  Yes I did.  The Acura RDX is indeed geek nirvana.  And understated in my prose was the voice command capability of the vehicle.  Oh, it’s awesome!  So far, my favorite commands are “XM 41″ for some head-banging tunes, “passenger temperature 32 degrees” to freeze out whoever is riding with me, and “find nearest fast food restaurant” for righteous eats.  The whole system is very seamless and it seems like pretty much every function …

I believe I have found my next car.  The Acura RDX!  And for all the geek reasons!

Right now, I have two cars: an Isuzu Rodeo Sport (affordable, but bad mileage) and a Honda S2000 (testosterone nirvana!).  Neither is blessed with an abundance of geek goodness.  Heck, the interior of the S2000 is very spartan.  Some S2000 afficionados even feel that the car is so purely a race car that it shouldn’t even have a radio!  But I digress.

As such, I have decided that my next automobile purchase will be based on geeky goodness.  That means all the creature comforts I …

Picked up the Mio DigiWalker C220 GPS yesterday.  Not a bad little unit, but it isn’t necessarily the Holy Grail of GPS units.

One of my favorite video podcasts is InDigital with Hahn Choi, Wil Wheaton, and Jessica Corbin (mmmmm, Jessica Corbin).  A few episodes back, Wil Wheaton (yes, THAT Wil Wheaton) reviewed the Mio DigiWalker GPS system and gave it a great review.  My TomTom 700 is getting a little long in the tooth, so I figured I could use a new GPS.  And at less than $200 (Amazon price $180), how could I go wrong?

But let’s back up.  Wil …

I admit, I am a little late to the whole MP3, portable music Era. I did try an iPod a few years back with mixed success before the device imploded. Since then I’ve relied on that horrible Sony ATRAC SonicStage CD system for my music listening, and if you too use that same system then you know the frustration.

Anyway, clearly time to upgrade, and upgrade I have done! My latest purchase is the Creative MuVo V100 MP3 player.

The sleek MuVo V100 is the size of a cigarette lighter or a pack of gum and acts basically as a …

As a road warrior, I have struggled forever with finding the best method for getting my recorded TV programs to travel with me.  Here is the journey so far.

The number one solution has always been to throw money at the problem.  But I have tried desperately to avoid that solution.  In the end, it may be the way to go.  From what I can tell, it would be easy to get a Windows Media Center Edition PC (also called MCE, around $1,000 minimum for an MCE PC) and a compatible portable player ($200+).  But there are reasons not to go …