With the new motto "Smart Made Simple", PC accessories company Kensington is taking the "digital lifestyle" route with sleeker and stylish designed mices, keyboards, bags, iPod accessories and even power adapters... how sexy can that be! At MacWorld, Kensington's marketing director Christine Dumery (pictured) gave me a tour of her company's booth "en francais" showing the new line of products launched last September. Two products picked my curiosity: the sd200v notebook docking station with video and the LiquidAUX line of car audio kits that use the car stereo auxiliary (AUX) port, a lot more common on new cars these days. Unfortunately, mine must too old and don't have an AUX port :(
According to Dumery, the Kensigton's docking station is the first of its kind available for the Mac. The $140 unit actually works for both Windows and MacOS with the Mac driver officially released in March. The docking station adds 5 USB, 1 microphone and 1 audio ports but also an external monitor that turns the Mac into a two screens system by just pressing the Dualview switch in front of the unit. It lets you then either expand your work area across your notebook screen and the external monitor or duplicate the notebook view on the external monitor.
The video of Dumery presenting the docking station for Mac after the jump.

LiquidAUX
And here's a short video of the LiquidAUX line, including a new car charger for the iPhone and iPod along with a Bluetooth stereo kit that allows to manage both your music and phone conversations without taking your hands off the wheel.

"In 2010, over 50% of cars on the road will have that AUX port", said Dumery.

Kensington new mices/keyboard Finally, Kensington's bread and butter: the mices and keyboard line of accessories with some cool hybrid mice/presenter and mice/trackball.