Detroit's new song: Have iPod, will travel

[Mac Reporter]

DETROIT--Plugging an iPod into your car is now easier than ever.

Electronics companies demonstrated new products at a conference here this week that offer better ways to link Apple Computer's audio player to a vehicle's stereo, replacing the problematic and low-quality methods of radio transmitters and cassette adapters.

A Lynbrook, N.Y.-based company called Multi Technology Equipment is selling a box the size of a cigarette pack that lets almost any car stereo control an iPod, with the controls for changing tracks on CDs now able to skip through playlists. The company's Ipod2car adapter also charges an iPod, which would typically be mounted on a dashboard.

The $190 Ipod2car adapter is manufactured by Peripheral Electronics, a veteran supplier of aftermarket audio accessories for cars. Ron Freeman, Peripheral's chief operating officer, said that his engineers had to reverse-engineer Apple's iPod communications protocol to make the device work.

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[berniej]

hmmmm..... verrry intereshting! :dry::dry::dry:

[wicket]

mukhang this is it guys..... easy, fast and affordable
FINALLY!!!:beer:

[Lester]

Just might be the adapter I've been waiting for. But! I guess I'd wait a little more till the price drops down to $99. Now that's affordable!