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Are you guys kidding if we had all of this stuff we would just come up with more ideas. Before you got an empeg how many of you just wanted to be able to have your entire music collection in your car. Remember



The reason why I bought a Empeg was that I knew that getting my music collection in my car would be just the start - and thats why I wanted to buy a platform that was open and extendable - the Empeg fitted the bill admireably nearly 4 years ago now [in Jan 2003 it will be about 4 years old as a concept - Mk2 is less than that]. I am sure that it will still be usable in 4 more years - long after most head units have gone to the rubbish tip.

I knew that I would want more stuff - like GPS and HUD options - its amazing how little progress has been made with in-vehicle HUD's in the intervening interval.

But I see that Symbol has a cool LASER device that should do HUD's on any surface in 640 x 480 "vga", including moving images - in a small package.
Unfortunately its not a released product yet, but it should be next year.

I'd like something like that, coupled with FLIR (Forward looking Infra-Red) cameras so that at night, I can see the road as a "IR" image projected in realtime on the same road image I can see normally - this would give me the best of both worlds.

Would also make for great Prolux visuals projected onto any surface from 5 inches to whatever distance from your Empeg - now that would be so cool.