As some of you may well be aware, the DICE Electronics FM RDS iPod integration kit has been available on “pre-order” from us for a while now. This gives you guys the opportunity to get your name down on a list to be the first to get one when they land as the first batch is very limited and exclusive to iPod Car Kit Direct.

This units promises to be an absolute winner from the start. It has built in RDS so it will display the track titles (ID3 Tagging) through the stereo (Where you usually see it say “Radio 2″ for example). It is fully hard wired and has a built in break out connection which means that when your iPod is connected, the cars aerial isn’t - eliminating ALL interference.

It will work with all older Apple iPods and hopefully the newer Apple iPods but this is yet to be confirmed.

So if your wanting an iPod solution that will fit any car, this could very well be the kit!

We are still pushing DICE very hard on the matter, trying to get it available as soon as possible.

The team at iPod Car Kit Direct is very excited to add another product to its HUGE and unbeatable range of iPod Car Kits.

The DICE Electronics iPod Car Kit has been around for a few months now and welcomes its newest addition to the iPod Car Kit scene… Its very own cradle. Previously, all DICE Electronics iPod integration kits were only available with an iPod cable - this is now the past!

The very sleek looking cradle will also be doubled up as a video output incase you need your video on your Apple iPod to play through and screen in your car. Most Audi, BMW and Mercedes Navigation screens can work with this video output.

iPod Car Kit Direct have added the option to add this cradle into your basket when you purchase the DICE car kit - getting it all in one package, giving you a bigger saving!

OK guys, GREAT news for those of you who have a new Apple iPod (Whether it be an iPod Touch, and iPhone, an iPod Classic 80gb or 160gb or the new iPod Nano 3rd Generation)and wanted to integrate it into your Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Renault and all other car brands - your options were limited if you were trying to get these working in your car, before now.

As you may or may not be aware, the new Apple iPod’s don’t have the same software/firmware on them as the old iPods. This made it very hard for the team at Dension and Dice Electronics to crack the software and allow integration into vehicles.

Dension (being the iPod car kit manufacturer market leaders that they are), have raced to the finish line with perfection, now making ALL Dension Gateway 100, Dension Gateway 300 and all Dension Gateway 500 products work with all the new iPods. DICE are a little behind but we are sure they will catch up.

Dension even have new inserts/sleeves coming soon that will allow all the new iPod’s to be integrated into your Dension Active Cradle. The best iPod Car Kits just got ALOT better!!!

A Washington, DC area father gave his daughter a gift of an Apple iPod Classic 80gb this Christmas, surely thinking she would be thrilled. Sadly, when his daughter opened the Apple iPod box she didn’t find everyone’s favorite MP3 player waiting for her. Instead she found a note which read, ‘Reclaim your mind from the media shackles. Read a book and resurrect yourself. To claim your capitalistic garbage go to your nearest Apple Store,’ and a few books about leading a more enlightened life.

The father returned the Apple iPod to WalMart, where he purchased it, for a full refund. WalMart explains that this had happened to another person,and that Apple is responsible for it (though it seems much more likely that someone bought a few Apple iPods, replaced the devices with these letters, and returned them).

Strange one there! He wont be wanting an Apple iPod car kit connection form us then!

Currently in lead in the UK, Nokia may be given a run for its money as the iPhone is set to be the number one mobile web browsing device. According to iTWire and StatCounter, the iPhone took 0.06 percent of the total internet browser marketshare in the UK for March 2008.

According to StatCounter, the iPhone definitely has some work cut out, if it is to surpass Nokia’s 0.15 percent market share to date as of March. iPhone is currently in second place with it’s 0.06 percent (which goes up to 0.09 percent if iPod touch browsing is also figured in). But that is still way ahead of the Blackberry with it’s 0.02 percent.

If you thought your Apple iPod touch was expensive, then you might be in for a surprise when you learn about this gold-plated touch. David Beckham of soccer (or football as it is known in the rest of the world) fame received a golden iPod touch from his teammates after participating in his 100th national club appearance. Engadget is reporting that this iPod touch is worth over 600 English pounds (or $1,188 US dollars). Of course they didn’t skimp on the iPod itself, as you can see it is the 32 GB model.

Apparently this iPod-enabled dance performance has been around for quite a while (here’s an NYT piece on it from 2006), but it’s the first we’ve heard of it, and it’s pretty amazing. The 87-year-old choreographer, Merce Cunningham, who has collaborated with John Cage and Andy Warhol among others, has created a dance performance piece called eyeSpace.

Apparently, the music, which can be downloaded preperformance and is written by composer Mikel Rouse (no relation at all to TUAW’s own Mike Rose) plays in the audience’s iPods while the dancers dance (and other atmospheric sounds are added during the performance as well). Very interesting. The NYT piece seems to hint that the tracks are meant to be played in random order on each iPod, which would mean that the timing wasn’t too important, but it’s a cool idea (even more cool that it’s done by an artist of Cunningham’s age, but what else do you expect from a Mac fan?).

Definitely reminds me, too, of the MP3 Experiments done by Improv Everywhere in New York. Just goes to show you that we’re still in the middle of the digital music revolution — when we can listen to almost anything anywhere at any time, who knows what other creative folks will come up with?

Multiple sources are repeating Stuff.tv’s report that Apple is planning to bring the Nike+ system to the iPhone and iPod touch. Nike+ is of course a special kit, originally made for iPod nano, that will record the distance and length of a walk or run — you stick the little sensor in your shoe, and it works as a timer and pedometer to record personal workout stats.

Stuff also reports that in addition to bringing along the sensor system, the new Nike+ system may also be able to take advantage of the iPhone’s and touch’s wifi by sending stats from the sensor directly to Nike’s online database,where a new “Coach” system will help you schedule runs and activities.

Sounds pretty amazing. Of course, this is only the beginning of the kind of “life management” software that we’ll see coming out of the SDK. Stuff suggests that your iPhone will help you know when go to out and for how long, but of course we know that by the time June comes around it’ll be able to do a lot more than that.

Yes, you can has winpwn — for beta values of “can has”. Pwning an iPhone means preparing it to accept custom iPhone firmware bundles (ipsw files) in iTunes. Winpwn 99.1.8 Beta has been released for public testing (though keep in mind that this particular tool is for use with Windows).

If you’re wary of beta releases and not an early adopter, you’ll probably want to keep waiting. There is no 2.0 support. You may run into LIBUSB errors (apparently fine, meaning you probably just don’t have no ibooter). You must have 1.1.4 firmware loaded onto your unit in order to pwn it — whether for Mac or Windows. The developers strongly request that any new users start with this tutorial. For more help, check out the #winpwn and @winpwn-devel channels on irc.osx86.hu IRC server.

The one feature that most of us iPhone owners want is native instant messaging. With the upcoming SDK release, instant messaging apps will most likely not be able to run in the background (in other words, they may not receive messages when the phone is sleeping or doing other things). However, AppleInsider is reporting on an Apple patent for instant messaging on the iPhone that was filed in August of last year, but just granted in March of this year.

The drawing included with the patent filing looks identical to the SMS application on the iPhone, with some key differences, one of which is word suggestions that appear as bubbles above the keyboard. AppleInsider also reports that this service could be used as a substitute for MMS (multi media messaging) which the current iPhone is lacking.

You can read the full patent filing on the USPTO’s website.