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Automotive

Porsche 918 Spyder Concept

2010.03.02

Porsche 918 Spyder Concept: This is why it is important to have a quality display. More photos and a video at Autoblog.

Automotive Dashboards: Tegra 2, Moblin, Atom

2010.01.14

Next-generation automotive dashboards will be as technologically advanced as a netbook. Just look at the Lexus LFA’s high-tech display and you’ll get a very good idea of where dashboards of future cars are headed. During CES 2010 there were demonstrations of next-gen dashboards incorporating some advanced computing technologies such as NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 GPU, Moblin, [...]

2010 BMW Z4 sDrive30i: Don’t Wear Polarized Sunglasses

2009.12.23

Autoblog took the 2009 BMW Z4 sDrive30i Roadster for a spin and mentioned this:
As with most modern BMWs, between the analog gauges is a red-orange LCD display that displays secondary information like mileage, radio stations and so on. The readout is easily legible except when wearing polarized sunglasses.
Of course the information from the red-orange LCD [...]

2011 Audi A8: Google Earth Powered

2009.12.16

The 2011 Audi A8 is the first automobile to feature Google Earth. Insert a SIM card into the Multi Media Interface (MMI) or use a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone that has data connectivity and the 8-inch LCD will display 3D views of the driver’s surroundings in addition to satellite imagery, terrain and the ordinary maps. According to [...]

Lexus LFA LCD Instrument Cluster

2009.12.02

The LFA sports a fully digital instrument cluster. It isn’t a typical rectangular LCD nor is it fully round. Wondered how the animation looks? Focus starting around 1:46 in the video. Source: YouTube

2011 Toyota Sienna – 21:9 LCD

2009.12.02

The 2011 Toyota Sienna looks quite nice for a minivan. And speaking of nice the LCD looks quite nice indeed. I’m not certain it is a 21:9 aspect ratio but the rear-facing LCD that flips down is ultra-wide. Source: Autoblog

Audi A8 Recognizes Handwriting

2009.12.02

Audi has what it calls Multi Media Interface or MMI for short. The MMI on the 2011 A8 can recognize your handwriting: just scribble your destination and MMI takes care of the rest. German? Of course. English? Yes, and other languages are supported too: Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. There is a long video showing off [...]

McLaren MP4-12C: Portrait 7-inch LCD

2009.10.15

McLaren Supercar I’m sitting at a Barnes and Noble’s reading EVO (issue 136). I like cars, sports cars, and reading about them. Unfortunately, reading is about all I will be doing when it comes to sports cars. For quite some time. The feature of EVO is the new supercar from McLaren, the MP4-12C. The MP4 [...]

Panasonic CN-HX3000D: 7″ 720p HD In-Dash Monitor

2009.04.22

720p Panasonic’s CN-HX3000D is the first in-dash monitor that sports a real HD pixel format. The 7″ monitor features a 1280 x 720 pixel format for real HD action in your car. The CN-HX3000D also includes GPS, Bluetooth, a 40GB hard disk, and is iPhone & iPod compatible.

You can pair the 7″ 720p LCD monitor [...]

2010 Mercedes-Benz S-Class: Splitview LCD

2009.04.15

In-car dialogues are about to go instinct. And Mercedes-Benz is going to make sure with its new Splitview LCD in the company’s top-of-the-line S-Class vehicles. Splitview allows the driver to see one thing and the passenger to a different image from the same LCD. Check out the video above. If you’re the impatient sort you [...]


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