Orient Today

Now that OBD (not to be confused with ODB) has been opened up by way of USB and Bluetooth adapters, we’re now able to get much better insight into what is actually going on under the hood. The limitation has been in the software that displays that info. Vital Engineering has solved not only the software issue, they solved it for a number of platforms including Smart Phones. It doesn’t stop there, even cooler, their software will post live performance data to “the web”.

Carhacks would love to demo the hw & software to give you all a better look at all it can do… We’ll see how that goes

Car PCs

Microsoft will get their foot in the American automotive market with a mobile office option for F-250 Super Duty trucks. It appears that the general contractor is the first segment targeted for their mobile toys. Sorry, not toys, job stuff.

The option will be about $3K which may end up being a little steep for the market they’re targeting. I would have thought they would target the mobile executive who has more money that he knows what to do with but hey, what do I know.

Car PCs

Engadget posted some photos of the computer that’s built Ford tough. Looks like a cop computer. Not that it’s a bad thing but it does sort of have “steal me” written all over it. I hope they locked that sucker in there good.

Car PCs