Jack Dorsey, Square cofounder and CEO, unveiled the new hardware at an event in San Francisco Tuesday.

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Today we got to see the thing in action at the Pepcom event here at CES. The hardware is a small black plastic box that should plug into most cars sold in the US after 1996.

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What you might not know is that this critical event depends on British-designed and -built hardware.

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The only hardware shown on-stage during Sony's PlayStation 4 event was the retooled DualShock controller, the DualShock 4.

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