Iphones and Cars

There’s quite a bit that you can do with your iphone and car nowadays, you can remote start and lock them via your iphone and even steer it remotely.

Remote Drive

The Spirit of Berlin team has developed an iPhone app to remotely control a minivan, not quite “Tomorrow Never Dies“, but its getting there.

They didn’t have to do much to the vehicle to get this working because the platform was developed for the 2007 Darpa Urban Challenge. The iPhone connects with the driving circuitry via WiFi and offers a gas button, a brake button, and a steering button to enable the accelerometer for turning. The front camera video is transmitted to the iPhone in real-time. Not available from Halfords just yet though.

Taken from http://hackaday.com/…

Remote Lock and start

There is an app that is available in US stores at the moment which connects to a Viper SmartStart hardware module installed in your car, and it allows you to control five basic functions: start your car, turn on the heat, unlock your doors or boot, and manage the car alarm. The range is effectively infinite too, since all communication is carried out over cell networks—no line of sight contact necessary.

Edited: October 25th, 2009

Autonomous Robotic Helicopters

Came across this on the MIT site, its an autonomous robot helicopter that can scout and map an area on its own.

Edited: October 15th, 2009

Courier Tablet from Microsoft

Saw this on Gizmodo and Digg, kind of makes me want to throw out the moleskin.

I definitely would love to get my hands on one of these and also see an Apple version of this product.

Edited: September 23rd, 2009

Twine 2.0

Although i’ve not actively used Twine for a while, TechCrunch have written an article on the new version of Twine and how it might change our searching habbits.

Edited: September 20th, 2009