The Swedes are experimenting with a device fitted to a car dashboard that monitors the driver's breath.
In fact few industry analysts even understand what the goal of it is other than basically an iPhone duct-taped to a car dashboard.
Apart from Mr. Billard's melting bonus, a bank teller in British Columbia made national news after she told a local radio station of seeing bills that had melted a on car dashboard on a hot summer day.
Inspired by Garmin's avionics and marine technology, K2 turns the car dashboard into a digital cockpit that provides drivers a safe and intuitive way to stay connected and access all the functions they need while on the road.
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Numerous videos of the fireball were taken with camera phones, CCTV and car-dashboard cameras and subsequently shared widely on the web.
This was a time before mobile phones - the only contact I had with the outside world while I was driving was the standard car radio in the dashboard.
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Once home, I taped copies of my new list on the refrigerator, the bathroom mirror, the dashboard of my car.
As with Sony's portable HDTV offering, the MREAL has two small displays sitting just in front of your eyes -- and also like the Sony (and any similar technology, we'd imagine) certain images take some getting used to -- particular those intended to be up close, with small writing (the dashboard of a car, for example).
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On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway.
The star informer was Trevor Haken, a former detective sergeant who helped to install miniature video cameras in the dashboard of a police car and in the light fittings of a prostitute's home.
And then you could order the car with an interior by Prada, a dashboard clock by Rolex and a stereo by Bose.
The GPSmile 52 Car Navigator should feel right at home on a dashboard or in a hiker's palm, as the 9.5 x 7.7 x 2.2-centimeter enclosure and 6.3-ounces of heft shouldn't pose too much of a burden on the average weary traveler either way.
So we set off down the long straight road across California and Nevada with two GoPros fixed outside the car, and the Canon Digital SLR fixed to the dashboard.
Mr. Warming pointed to another picture of the spare, yet modern, steering-wheel column and single large dashboard dial on an old 1960s Mini, the inspiration for the minimalist dashboard of the Mini Rocketman, an even tinier Mini concept car that made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
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Perhaps drivers will want movable holograms above the dashboard or the mobility internet (described above), wherein the car is on the Internet and connected to other cars.
In-car technology has also helped make drivers aware of such costs: new cars often have dashboard dials showing how many miles to a gallon the vehicle is achieving at its current speed.
Not only will car dashboards look like those of modern jets, each driver will be able to customize the look of the dashboard.
Car companies often resort to cost-cutting measures such as toning down the exterior or doing away with a swanky dashboard with high-end features for a simple, no frills interior.
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