Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
15:26 - Really Mobile Computing
http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=10473
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First Lioness, and now this. Someone spread the word that Apple is dooomed, remember?
Thought you might like to know that the Honda Studio E concept vehicle has an LCD panel inside the back running Mac OS X. I've enclosed two images...
Inside, Studio E features front bench seating and two rear pod seats that flip down from the sides, yet store in a minimum amount of space when not in use. The mobile entertainment system uses a personal audio computer and can mix multiple inputs simultaneously, i.e. turntables and an effects generator or a more traditional guitar, drum machine or microphone could also be attached.
The personal audio computer has its own workstation with keyboard, mouse and a 17-inch liquid crystal display. To play to a larger crowd, a motorized 42-inch plasma screen rotates down from the ceiling and interfaces with the audio computer to display custom visual patterns in step with the music out the back of the vehicle, or it can play DVDs.
OS X on a 42-inch plasma screen in a hip neo-SUV, huh? Sounds like someone has some kind of demographic in mind, just possibly...
Still, this is a pretty sweet sighting.
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