April 05, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Soundman Car Audio has posted a video showing the installation of the iPad into a car dash.

Some other ideas I had include using a bluetooth receiver for the audio so the iPad can be moved around inside the car or even removing the casing of the iPad entirely. You could then fabricate a custom enclosure which would mount the iPad seamlessly into your dash.

[Via iclarified.com]

March 24, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter was probably the coolest thing ever controlled via iPhone or iPod touch… until this. Dave Phipps has hooked up a ‘69 Pontiac GTO to his iPod touch — he’s been rebuilding these cars for a long time, and this particular one was picked up out of a farm for just $400. Read more…

January 08, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

I better be careful next time I walk out of my Apple Store here in Santa Monica — apparently burglars are targeting Apple Store customers here in the Los Angeles area. Over 100 customers have apparently been targeted after leaving the store and keeping a computer or other purchase in their car. The thieves wait for customers to walk away from Apple Store bags in their car, either at home or at another store, and then they break in and take them. For some reason, no computers have yet been returned, either, which makes cops think that they’re possibly being “shipped out of the country or fenced right away.” But of course that would require an organized ring, and police aren’t even sure these are all related yet. Read more…

September 30, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

The iPhone can do many things. Now it can even lock and unlock a car and start the engine.

Cambridge, Mass.-based car-sharing service Zipcar this week launched an app that lets you locate and reserve one of its vehicles, unlock it using the iPhone’s touch-screen and drive it off the lot.

“The iPhone is a pipeline for almost one-third of our members,” says Luke Schneider, Zipcar’s chief technology officer. “This is something they have been asking for.” Read more…

September 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Live in Australia? Have an iPhone? Do you use the iPhone’s built-in Maps app, Navigon, or TomTom [iTunes links] to navigate? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, then I have some bad news for you: under the Australian Road Rule 8th Amendment, all use of the iPhone in your car is soon to be banned unless you buy a cradle for it, including using it as a GPS navigator.

An article from the Sydney Morning Herald initially makes it sound as though you won’t be able to use such apps at all, especially after reading this quote from a spokesperson for VicRoads, the traffic authority for the Australian state of Victoria: “A phone will only be allowed to be used for its primary purpose. If it’s a phone, it’s a phone.” But once you read farther down the article states, “Drivers will only be able to use mobile phones if they are placed Read more…