Vudu has added a WiFi adapter to its product lineup. For $80, you can pick up a Vudu Wireless Kit which adds 802.11g connectivity to a Vudu set top box, which means you can download videos from the Vudu service without running Ethernet cables all over your house.

Of course, that's $80 on top of the $300 you pay for the movie downloading device. You can shave $30 off the price if you buy the Wireless Kit bundled with the set top box. Or you could invest in a $100 Netflix Player by Roku and watch the lousy selection of videos Netflix streams over the internet to your heart's content.

[via Gizmodo]

Sure, those new SideShow-enabled remote controls look pretty cool. But what if you don't want to leave your computer on all the time just so you can do nifty things like check out an electronic program guide on your remote control?

The tvCompass remote control includes 802.11b/g, a 2.2-inch QVGA LCD, and a speaker for listening to audio alerts or sound files. You can control multiple devices, and can even receive equipment codes and electronic program guide data over the air. Your data can be backed up to a tvCompass network server.

You can also use the built in WiFi to access games, videos, and web content directly on the remote control.

No info on pricing or availability just yet, but I'd say it'll make the Logitech Harmony remote look cheap.

[via Mobile Magazine]

Archos is updating its line of WiFi-enabled portable media players with a new Archos 704 WiFi making the FCC rounds today. There's not much information regarding what sets this guy apart from the Archos 604 WiFi. All we can really tell from the FCC documents is that it's got 802.11b/g built in, as well as a CPU, RAM, and a hard drive. There's no specs on how fast that CPU is, or how much memory is included.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that it'll also have a larger hard drive than the 604, which sported just 30GB of storage, while the Archos 604 supported up to 160GB. It's hard to be certain from this photo, but it looks like the 704 might also be a bit larger than its older brother, which had a 4.3-inch screen.

All I'm saying is, my birthday's coming up, and I wouldn't say no to a portable media player with WiFi, a 7-inch screen, and a 160GB hard drive. Oh yeah, and support for recording television programs without a separate docking station would be nice.

[via Engadget]