Wow, Cool gift. Make it mine

They look great

-Slingbox Mobile (Slingmedia will do this for sure, they have told me)
-Bookreader with ability to download from various sites
-Activesync for Outlook (I imagine Apple will do this)
-A2DP for bluetooth (if Apple doesn't do it first)
GPS through bluetooth

"What are "pretty sick location-based services", perhaps this is a reference to 'travel sickness'"

I think someone got the L out of there.

That Panasonic Camera is very nice. And Engadget is great at providing the latest news.

Looking forward to that really cool touch screen

Predecessor - "someone or something that comes before". I don't think this is the predecessor to anything at the moment.

Wrong. HDMI and DVI are compatible. If the player comes with an HDMI output, you can use a cable to connect this to a DVI input on your TV and you will be fine, as long as the TV has HDCP copy protection (which only a very few sets with DVI do not have).
The players (Blu Ray and HD-DVD) will also output analog via component, and each studio will decide disc by disc whether or not it will be down-rezzed. The players will look for something called an image constraint token, or ICT. If it is there, it will lower the resolution over analog outputs. In Japan, it is illegal to output down-rezzed images, so there it will be a full resolution.