Tag: CAR

Meego -- the Linux effort headed up by Intel and Nokia -- recently scored a fairly major win, with GENIVI selecting it as the platform of choice for in-vehicle infotainment. In case you're not familiar with GENIVI, it's a consortium comprised of several high-profile companies including GM, BMW, Hyundai, Intel, Nokia, NVidia, ARM, Freescale, and many others. On GENIVI's about page, they speak ...

Take a car. Put in a black box, hooked into the horn and the ignition. On the other end of the box, put a website (connected wirelessly). Let employees use the site to honk the car's horn remotely or prevent it from starting. Reads rather like a nerdy college prank, doesn't it? I'm afraid this is actually a commercial system, deployed on thousands of cars, used to "get the attention of ...

Ok, so maybe you don't have access to all the necessary equipment to pull this off, but if you did...It would look a lot like the contents of this Flickr gallery. Professional race driver Stef van Campenhoudt, typographers Pierre and Damien of PleaseLetMeDesign, and interactive artist Zachary Lieberman collaborated to create iQ font using a compact Toyota hatchback and an array of computer and ...

Sometimes the best web services are the simplest ones. Drivepricing lets you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip. With gas prices so high its nice to be able to know how much to put in the piggy bank to save up for the trips you have coming up this summer. So when you're going to visit grandma in Albany from Philly, you can drop your gas mileage in there and get an estimated cost of what ...

Just when you thought you were going to get away from the rat race of a freeway commute and take the train, Nokia and EA have found a way to get you back into the driver's seat. A version of Need For Speed: Carbon has been released for Java-supporting mobile phones such as the excellent N73. On Nokia N-series phones, you can grab the racer by launching the Download! option. Then strap in and hit ...

The Japanese government is working with 10 major Japenese auto makers to develop a standardized automobile operating system. While we're tempted to make jokes about blue screens of death and unexpected errors, the truth is many cars now include complex electronics and require a computer system to coordinate all those newfangled parts. And developing a uniform operating system is going to make ...

Many people have built their own car PC and installed their rig into their autos, but now Microsoft feels that they must partner with Ford to put Windows into your car. Why? Microsoft really doesn't want to take over the world you know, just your desktop, living room, workplace, car, plane, tricycle, government, oh yeah and they want to be in charge of how much filling goes into Twinkies too. ...

An open source car? This one's a little different. It's hardware, but applying the principles of open source software. I've seen this before (there are a few robotics projects), but never with an object so pervasive, and so complex. Unless anyone knows of an open source rocket to Mars... The OScar (man I hope they don't get sued over that name) is ambitious, yes, but slowly moving forward. It took ...