Comments on: First iPad car installation

First iPad car installation

fixedgear — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:31:24 -0800

First iPad in dash. [SLYT]

By: Western Infidels

Western Infidels — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:35:44 -0800

First iPad in blender.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:37:04 -0800

Nth iPad flagged.

By: Adam_S

Adam_S — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:38:39 -0800

First iPad in blender. willpex4232: Don't you have anything better to do? Blendtec (uploader): @willpex4232 Not really. Ha.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:40:35 -0800

Pimpin!

By: bearwife

bearwife — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:40:49 -0800

Because the TV in the middle of the dashboard before just wasn't distracting enough. Speaking of distracting, what's with the installer's Wolfman Jack look?

By: djduckie

djduckie — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:41:26 -0800

This is the best ideal ever.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:42:00 -0800

Too bad there aren't any I/O ports so that you could hook it up to the ODB II port on the car. Does the iPad support Bluetooth SPP?

By: JaredSeth

JaredSeth — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:43:25 -0800

First iPad in puppet hands.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:43:58 -0800

Hmm, that is pretty cool.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:52:29 -0800

Too bad there aren't any I/O ports so that you could hook it up to the ODB II port on the car. You could probably hook up an ODB II USB or nine-pin DIN port scanner through the external accessory port. You'd have to write some software and it wouldn't be easy, but it doesn't seem impossible.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:55:53 -0800

You'd have to write some software... uh.

By: floam

floam — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:01:14 -0800

There's people with their iPhones talking to their cars ODB-II somehow and showing graphs and stuff, so I'm sure it's possible.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:04:28 -0800

My reaction to this is, oddly, the exact same as my reaction to the iPad itself: After reading about it, I thought 'Why would I ever conceivably want that?' and then looking at it and saying 'That looks really fucking cool.'

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:06:25 -0800

Jim Lee's iPad fingerpaintings

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:08:20 -0800

$99 iPhone ODB-II and I wish I had not seen that, because now I want it.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:13:55 -0800

I'm confused, I mean the iPad is obviously designed primarily as a cocaine consumption platform with some other bells and whistles, and how will you be able to blow lines off it when it's stuck upright?

By: mert

mert — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:16:16 -0800

He's a kind of greaser nerd

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:20:15 -0800

First iPad used onscreen by Stephen Colbert to make salsa.

By: danherwig

danherwig — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:22:11 -0800

Hmm. Cool, but how do you get more content in it other than the iTunes store? I hope it's easily removable to sync with their Mac/PC.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:22:30 -0800

It's OBD-II. ODB is this guy.

By: spacely_sprocket

spacely_sprocket — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:26:08 -0800

I think it's a nice idea, but the execution might leave something to be desired. The ODB sync as was previously mentioned, as well as a slide mount with a docking port, both for security reasons and so you can sync it with your desktop iTunes, etc.

By: infini

infini — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:30:14 -0800

metafilter: the next ipad hangout...

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:42:08 -0800

First iPad to be hacked for root access. F**k yeah!

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:45:33 -0800

$99 iPhone ODB-II and I wish I had not seen that, because now I want it. Huh. Who knew?

By: i_have_a_computer

i_have_a_computer — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:47:57 -0800

All that's missing is a KITT-2000 AI app. "Michael, sensors indicate that you should take the next exit."

By: Threeway Handshake

Threeway Handshake — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:50:24 -0800

How shitty would it be to have a not-3g-wifi-only ipad in a car?

By: jewzilla

jewzilla — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:51:14 -0800

I couldn't listen to the audio since I'm at work, but this raises some questions: - How does it get charged? If it's always plugged in, that would be bad for the battery, and if you don't drive enough then it would drain while the car was off. - Can you disable the screen lock on the ipad? Can't on the ipod, and that is a pretty bad experience while driving. - This needs 3g to work at all. I give it an A for looks and an F for being well thought out as a car appliance.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:59:17 -0800

- How does it get charged? If it's always plugged in, that would be bad for the battery, and if you don't drive enough then it would drain while the car was off. Why would always being plugged in be bad for the battery? Like most rechargeable devices including phones and laptops, once the battery is full the charging circuit cuts out. You're drawing from the DC-in only. And if it's a dedicated in-car appliance, you don't much care about the condition of the battery anyway. A lithium battery is good for several years in storage, and while it's not considered ideal to store them fully charged, you don't really care if for purposes of your application you're always running it off the DC-in.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:01:54 -0800

The iPad is a swing and a miss for automotive applications, IMO. It's too big for most people (need a device sized in between the iPhone and iPad -- ideally double DIN), the interface is too fiddly for a driver (little icons, you gotta unlock it every time you start up, there's no thought put into driver safety, no locked out video playback, etc.), there is almost zero integration with automotive systems (HVAC, backup cameras, OBD-II+), it doesn't multi-task (yet) so you can't stream internet audio (e.g., Pandora, Slacker) while you're navigatin', etc., etc., etc. But it's so close you can almost taste it. It's got a great touch screen, a stable OS, and a mobile internet link that's going to obsolete lesser devices pretty quickly, including GPSes, radar detectors, and satellite radio. Apple needs to get into the auto market, in ernest, ASAP!

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:07:30 -0800

I wonder how long it will take until there's a first car accident while fucking around with the first iPad installed in your car.

By: aerotive

aerotive — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:11:57 -0800

Threeway Handshake: "How shitty would it be to have a not-3g-wifi-only ipad in a car?" That was my first though too, but you could pair it with a MiFi or Overdrive style device and get Internet connectivity that way.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:27:55 -0800

Apple needs to get into the auto market, in ernest, ASAP! He hooked an iPad up to a McIntosh so this is close.

By: qvantamon

qvantamon — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:36:50 -0800

I'm too afraid to search for that at work, but has anyone posted photos/videos of using an iPad as a pad yet? Bonus points if they use inoffensive blue liquid. Super-bonus points if they feature someone comfortably riding a bike as if it simply were not there.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:40:26 -0800

$149 wifi OBDII dongle.

By: alexei

alexei — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:51:51 -0800

First iPad car installation...to be followed by the first iPad fatality?

By: Babblesort

Babblesort — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:34:37 -0800

Show me the first iPad em dash and I'll perk up. Cars do little for me but I can obsess over typography for hours.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:35:53 -0800

As soon as I first saw video of the iPad going through it's paces I had a feeling it's real potential was not an awkward laptop or unusually heavy e-reader, but as a smooth-as-silk generic touch interface to custom hardware, like mixing boards, DMX lighting, machinery control, etc. I read someone from Ontario drove to Buffalo the first day they went on sale to purchase several for elevator diagnosis and servicing. They had already finished writing the controller app days earlier.

By: special-k

special-k — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:39:23 -0800

This is so badass. He can listen to Pandora in his garage using his home wifi! Totally worth the 500 bucks.

By: verb

verb — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:47:04 -0800

gratuitous self-link: first known LEGO iPad stand.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:32:31 -0800

Next: First iPad in crash.

By: ericthegardener

ericthegardener — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:40:44 -0800

real potential was not an awkward laptop or unusually heavy e-reader, but as a smooth-as-silk generic touch interface to custom hardware, like mixing boards, DMX lighting, machinery control, etc. AC-7 PRO: DAW Control Surface For iPad

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:56:38 -0800

fourcheesemac: “First iPad to be hacked for root access. F**k yeah!” Beautiful! Now I want to see Debian on that motherfucker. Get to it, gents!

By: The Hamms Bear

The Hamms Bear — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:02:03 -0800

Start the countdown to smashed car window, destroyed dashboard.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:10:24 -0800

GuyZero: “Too bad there aren't any I/O ports so that you could hook it up to the ODB II port on the car. Does the iPad support Bluetooth SPP?” Indeed. I like to use the ODB II port most of all because it tends to preserve the "natural flow" of the music.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:48:04 -0800

First iPad in blender . posted by Western Infidels at 4:35 PM on April 5 What's astonishing about that is while he's smashing it to get it to fit in the blender, there's a point at which the screen is fractured into thousands of pieces and he's bashed about a 30-degree bend into it, and suddenly you can see that the virtual keyboard has come on (portrait mode). That keyboard is fully software, which means at that point the iPad is still at least roughly functional. Either that is one fantastically durable device, or it's a mockup with a transparency under the glass. I sort of doubt the latter. I just hope the pulverized dust he dumps out in the end doesn't give him cancer or some hideous respiratory ailment; he wasn't wearing breathing protection. I wouldn't have done it without a full hazmat suit with a positive-pressure air supply.

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:13:36 -0800

I hope the car has good air conditioning, because there have been reports of iPads overheating in the sun.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:45:32 -0800

I hope the car has good air conditioning, because there have been reports of iPads overheating in the sun. Ouch. Good thing I'm waiting for a second gen model...

By: saladin

saladin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:38:24 -0800

Beyond OBD-II applications, I'd love to see this used to display real time engine and driving data (could the accelerometer be used to calculate cornering Gs, for instance?) and eventually used to control spark and fuel distribution on the fly in home-built engine management systems like MegaSpark. That'd be cool as snot, and it'd sure show up those hosers in their fancy GT-Rs.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:42:00 -0800

skidpad, gauges, inclinometer, etc

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:02:26 -0800

Let me just say that it's pretty easy to confuse OBD and ODB, OK? Alos, bda tpying.