New wireless gear from Griffin

Here's a head's up on some of the gadgety goodness Laurie will surely be treating us to this upcoming week. Check out a few of the items Griffin plans to unveil at Macworld: the AirClick Remote will use RF technology to allow you to control your iPod from 60 feet away. It will be compatible with fourth generation iPods, iPod mini, and the iPod photo. Supporting the latter will make this remote really handy if you've set your iPod photo up to show your Keynote or PowerPoint presentation. Sweet.

Next up is the AirClick USB dongle which will allow you to control tasks on your Mac remotely. It will ship with presets for iTunes, Keynote, PowerPoint, Quicktime and VLC. Again, another handy tool for the presenter, or for those of us geeks who run multiple workstations in the office and occasionally have need to control our Macs from across the room (read: us lazy IT folk who can't rip ourselves away from the current task to get up and walk across the room!).

One last piece of iPod-accessory goodness: the SmartDeck audio cassette adapter is not just your average D/A
converter: it will allow you to use your car stereo's control buttons to control your iPod. It's compatible with 3G and 4G iPods and iPod minis, and reportedly with almost any cassette deck. My Toyota Corolla is small enough that I could probably reach the iPod to control it even if it were in the back seat, but I still might end up picking one of these up...