DLO’s revved up its HomeDock line with the new HomeDock Music Remote. Connect it to your stereo (or TV with an A/V cable), and you can pump your tunes throughout your house, apartment, or, in my case, cardboard refrigerator box. DLO’s made a few HomeDock products before, but the HomeDock Music Remote adds—you guessed it—a flashy, shiny remote, complete with its own display. The remote also works up to 150 feet away, so I can even control my music when I’m nowhere near box, sweet box. There’s also a Jukebox feature, which sounds kind of like iTunes’s Party Shuffle, in that it lets you queue up to ten songs from your library on the fly.
The device works with a variety of different iPods, including the mini, both nanos, and some full-sized iPods (shuffle users may be out of luck, since it doesn’t seem like the HomeDock includes an audio in port). You can attach the dock to the computer via its USB port, and even charge the remote’s battery by docking it behind the iPod itself.
The whole shebang’ll cost you $129.00, which is certainly pricier than just connecting your iPod to your stereo system via a minijack-to-RCA cable, does free you from having to peer at its display while trying to get your groove on.
