A gadget live
Filed in archive About by on July 24, 2006
Even the listing of gadgets used in the car is immense.
... I needed a six-foot extension cord with a four-socket adapter, so many gadgets did we carry in our car.
There was the Nuvi navigator and digital entertainment system mounted by suction cup on my windshield. There were two iPods, accompanied by a device that charges the iPod and emits an FM signal simultaneously so you can hear the iPod on the car radio.
Wedged into an unoccupied pop-open drawer on my dash was a satellite radio offering more than 200 channels. My Razr cellphone sat in a cup holder along with a Bluetooth earpiece. My Starcom PDA, a pocket-size laptop....
But when he writes about the result I think something has to change..
...All the devices reported to me at once, the Nuvi, the Tele Aid and the traffic channel on the radio in a cacophony of synthesized speech. I, in turn, started shouting at Tele Aid in a desperate effort to change the function. From the rear, I could hear the theme to "Ghostbusters,'' I think it was, coming from the DVD player while the Razr in my cup holder vibrated against the plastic as junk mail announced its arrival on my cellphone....
A day in the 21. century, read on at:
The Detroit News Online
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