iPad in Your Car

[Jeff Campbell]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-use-for-the-ipad-yet-mounting-it-into-your-cars-dashboard-2010-4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider+(Silicon+Alley+Insider)&utm_content=Google+Rea' target='_blank'>http://www.businessinsider.com/cool...tent=Google+Rea</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Here's one use case for Apple's iPad we didn't see coming: Mounting it into a dashboard to make it your car's entertainment system."</em></p><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/rSnIXfoSU6I&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rSnIXfoSU6I&amp;ap=%26fmt=18" /></object></p><p>Interesting to say the least.&nbsp;</p>

[Cybrid]

He missed one crucial element. Unless he now commits to purchasing his media twice... he can't update his media collection easily. He'd buy a CD with no way of getting the songs to his iPad or...buy the songs through iTunes on his iPad and not be able to play them at home...

An Apple Touch would have been a better choice with a detachable docking set up.
Think one of those home docks but in the car... Sync the Touch, play in car...remove...play in gym...re-attach...play in car...remove...attach to dock next to bed...repeat as needed.
Source (http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f396/windows-mobile-user-rant-ms-mobile-devices-95568.html),

Sometime ago I had a revolutionary idea. My car radio was stolen. The replacement ls a 2 parter. A amp box and a control/face plate. So.... I need to remove and carry my stereo faceplate when I'm out of the car. Why? I should not need to! My Media player/ipod/PPC should be the "faceplate". They make ipod/media player "stereo docks" to turn them into home boom boxes. Very little difference in wiring, not too difficult to build.

In accordance
with another aspect, a car stereo includes a docking station into which an off-the-shelf handheld computer can be docked. The car stereo also includes an input/output (I/O) component that allows the car stereo to communicate with the handheld computer when the handheld computer is docked in the docking station of the car stereo. In accordance with another aspect, an appliance in which a portable computing device can be docked is an integrated vehicle stereo and portable computing device docking station.