Harman Kardon Drive + Play

So, your bro already has an iPod. What do you get him now? After a case to keep the thing from scratching, you may want to pick up a Harman Kardon Drive + Play. Of all the ways to add iPod functionality to a car, the $200 Drive + Play may well be the most elegant — short of a dealer-installed full-on integration, of course. Once installed (by a pro, unless bro's a hot-rodder), the Drive + Play provides an eye-level display that mimics the iPod's own (for monochrome, text-based info, at least), along with a joystick-like controller — no more trying to read the iPod's display or fiddle with its wheel while your hands should be on the other one. And since the Drive + Play is integrated into your car's stereo system, you can actually listen to all of your iPod's tunes without having to deal with a balky FM transmitter or some cheap cassette adapter.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

This thing rocks! It has a funny way of deciding when to power off (on my car, it wants the engine running. Not sure why...) but the interface is the best available. Not perfect (its no ipod) but very good.