Pioneer became the latest company to jump on the car-tech bandwagon on Wednesday when it unveiled a new car stereo unit that has maps with local searches, a "music sphere" and tunes from the Internet radio site Pandora.
For 2008, Sony makes a minor update to its entry-level Bluetooth-equipped car stereo.
Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai
and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice
commands to control personal music players and telephones
The faceplate layout of the CDX-GT410U is standard Sony fare: a large control dial gives drivers a means of adjusting volume and navigating menus and is surrounded by a cluster of hard buttons that provide one-touch access to most of the system's features.
The 3200 LS Color represents the latest stage in the evolution of Parrot's in-car Bluetooth calling kits. The device builds on the simple design and great usability of the CK3000 and the CK3100 car kits.
More than 400 years ago, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe - fat, bald, mustachioed, and sporting an artificial nose fashioned from gold and silver to replace his natural one, sliced off in a drunk...
What were the most expensive iPod accessories on display at this week's Macworld Expo?
It's not too hard to think up the ideal car. Take, for instance, the one that Joachim Stilla, the engineer in charge of BMW's Technology Office, fantasizes about. It has a spray-on skin that resist...
Ah, the summer road trip. Back in the Sputnik era, when my brother and I were young, Mom and Dad would plop us in the back seat of the Rambler for the 14-hour drive to Colorado. Back-seat bloodshed...
Every entrepreneur encounters a setback now and then, but it's hard to imagine a more demoralizing miscue than the one Paul Galvin faced in 1930. His Galvin Manufacturing Corp., founded two years ...
It's about half an hour before dusk, and my pal Becky and I are playing catch with a Wiffle ball. To our left is a couple frolicking with their dog; to our right, a family kibitzes while sitting in...
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BOUNCE BOOTS The first thing you notice when wearing Exerlopers is that you bound along like an astronaut on the moon when you're running in them. But that's not the real point, says the maker, Nor...
IT SEEMS THAT no sooner do the fertile imaginations of design engineers dream up whiz-bang electronic gadgets than consumers decide they can't live without them. But Pioneer Electronics, the Japane...
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