car pc hardware
5 February, 2008 - 22:03 Dual Screens Provide Display To Two Seperate Passengers
The biggest problem facing CarPc technology these days is pleasing all the passengers in the car. Surfing the web isn't necessarily what's on the driver's mind, or atleast if he/she is being safe it shouldn't.
With the release of the SD631T, this problem has been addressed. The SD631T at first glance might seem like another rung in the CarPC ladder, but the support of dual screen puts it above the rest. With the dual screens, the user or users will the have the option of running the same content on both displays or showing different content on the two screens.
25 January, 2007 - 20:00 VoomPC 2 futuristic Car PC
For those who looking for a complete car pc system take a look at the newly announced VoomPC-2 Car PC system.
The revised VoomPC-2 comes with a more powerful mini-ITX motherboard, based on a 1.5GHz Via C7 processor. With a futuristic faceplate the Mini-box.com has updated its Linux-compatible car PC, adding room for a slim DC drive. The VoomPC-2 Car PC is equipped with M1-atx/M2-atx, an intelligent power supply that eliminates battery drain and prevents damange from unwanted power surges.
9 January, 2007 - 11:41 Gates reveals Windows Car PC software
At his pre-CES keynote yesterday, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates announced new products and partnerships aimed at integrating PCs more tightly with users' lives. As EE Times reports, the new products include Windows Home Server, an operating system designed to "help households with multiple PCs easily connect their digital experiences." The OS will have a host of features for automated backups, centralized storage, and online file sharing. The first Windows Home Server-powered system will come out in the second half of this year in the form of HP's MediaSmart Server. As we mentioned earlier, the MediaSmart server will feature an AMD processor and AMD Live! Home Media Server certification.
2 May, 2006 - 19:59 New 160W carpc power supply
Providing 160W of power, the M2-atx, have a stronger 12V rail up to 8A making it ideal for operating most P4, P4-M, Celeron, ADM systems. Low power Geode and VIA processors will work as well, leaving ample power for 12V or 5V peripherials (multiple 3.5" hard drives, CDROM, etc).
28 March, 2006 - 20:35 MouseWheelInput follow up
Frequent readers of dashboardmonkey.com may know that I've posted a story about MWI (MouseWheelInput) a few month ago.
People who know me, also know that I'm constantly trying to improve things and I'm always searching for new ideas.
One day, I've found a post of a guy called Jens, who announced his project - an adapter PCB for the Audi Joystick. I was truly amazed and I offered Jens to make some extensions to MWI in order to utilize it with this fantastic piece of hardware.
15 March, 2006 - 00:14 Wearable Wrist PC with Touch Screen
A European embedded computing specialist has announced a wrist-worn wearable computer that runs embedded Linux or Windows CE. Eurotech's WWPC ("wrist-worn PC") offers a wealth of standard PC interfaces, along with several innovative wearable-specific features, the company claims. It targets emergency rescue, security, healthcare, maintenance, logistics, and "many other" applications.
The WWPC is based on an unspecified low-power embedded processor. It boots from 32MB of RAM, and has 64MB of SDRAM. Storage can be expanded through an SD-card slot supporting cards up to 1GB.
4 February, 2006 - 13:35 Volkswagen teams with Google and Nvidia on navigation system
Volkswagen has announced it is working on a prototype vehicle which features Google satellite mapping software and Nvidia providing the GPU.
