The two main batteries are from a child's ride-on toy, and its PA speakers are made from an old car stereo.
The Jukebox jacks into a home or car stereo system for playback.
We got a demo from a GM rep, who showed us how to access messages, read back to you through the car stereo.
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The wireless Bluetooth HID remote allows users to control any iOS Bluetooth Device while connected to a TV, dock station or car stereo.
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Probably my favorite story that we tell in the book is about Greg Tackett who owns a car stereo customization store in Pikeville, KY.
"I bought this record, and that evening we were driving in the van, and I stuck it on, on the car stereo, " Hansard says.
When I asked him about it, he laughed, talked about his faith (his children are named after Sufi saints), and turned the car stereo up.
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We've seen it before -- it's basically a car stereo faceplate that sports 1GB internal memory and connects with your PC to transfer music.
Pandora has inked the most integration deals with car stereo makers.
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Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box.
To spice up the trip, he likes to create playlists on his iPod, which he uses an adapter to connect to his car stereo, that are inspired by the region he's exploring.
For example, a consumer shopping for an Apple iPod might just be thinking of it as a portable device, not realizing it can also be used with a car stereo or for movies.
In 1947, the company dropped the name of its founders in favor of a punchier moniker borrowed from its early car stereo -- a name that meant "sound in motion, " according to the company line.
They marveled at the quality of the screen image, and when I plugged the audio output of the FireAnt into the car stereo I didn't hear another word from them until the movie was over.
There's a lot of leather to be found and high-quality materials abound, but the focal point of the whole thing is the 17-inch touchscreen wedged in vertically where you'd expect a car stereo and climate controls to be.
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On the drive there, a fuse blew, knocking out the car stereo, and so I pulled over, removed the fuse box, fashioned a fuse out of some aluminum foil from a pack of cigarettes, and got the cassette deck going again.
Having a high market share helps this strategy because it provides a financial incentive for third-parties to fill in features that might draw customers to competitors or add new ones (like car stereo integration) that are difficult for competitors to match.
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Hearing Microsoft's name and "in-car stereo" in the same sentence should elicit any forms of surprise, as we've long since known that Redmond was looking to up the ante of automotive entertainment in a bevy of Ford vehicles later this year.
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- 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.
Grant says the company is working with auto manufacturers to explore how on-board computers can help detect whether a driver is drowsy or not paying attention to the road, and allow a driver to control certain things in the vehicle -- like temperature, and in-car stereo -- using eye-control technology.
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Thanks in part to ideas born at dB Drag events, the acoustic power of car stereo speakers has increased tenfold in the last ten years, from a maximum of 500 watts per square meter to 5, 000. (A loudspeaker at a rock concert puts out 2, 500 to 3, 000 watts.) Pioneer learned from dB Dragsters to cover speaker coils with ceramics to dissipate heat.
Specifically, I feel morally authorized to spend an entire year blasting the Red Hot Chili Peppers at maximum volume out of really cheap car-stereo speakers, the ones equipped with chintzy mega-bass, to make up for the 20 years of noise pollution I've had to endure.
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Stored music can then be played through the AUX channel on the car's stereo.
He soon befriended Ancle Hsu, and the two struck out on their own, eventually importing China-made stereo speakers and selling them to car-accessory shops.
Intel subsidiary Wind River meanwhile teamed up with stereo maker Clarion in 2011 to develop Android-based car infotainment systems, competing with Hong Kong-based Ca-Fi which does the same.
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And then you could order the car with an interior by Prada, a dashboard clock by Rolex and a stereo by Bose.
Moreover, modern car assembly relies heavily on pre-assembly of parts such as entire dash boards with the stereo, the instrument panel and the steering column already built in.
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The Pioneer stereo also plays music and has other functions, making it somewhat different from stand-alone car GPS systems.
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