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Hyundai BLUE-WILL Would Clearly Like to Eat the Prius
1:45AM Mark Wilson | Sure, plenty of car companies have already stepped up to manufacture hybrids. But Hyundai’s BLUE-WILL concept is the only one that resembles some sort of carnivorous, aquatic beast. More »
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A Hyundai Gets Pimped with Apples
11:20PM Mark Wilson | It’s as if an Apple store were in a terrible car accident. This Hyundai Genesis has been stuffed the the brim with various Jobsonian tokens, including a three Apple computers (a MacBook Air and two Mac minis), an iPod touch, an iPhone (do these guys realise that an iPhone is basically an iPod touch?) and a 20″ Cinema Display in the trunk. In other words, the place looks just like Brian Lam’s living room. (We kid! We kid! Brian has way more Apple gear than this crappy car.) Here’s a bonus shot of the trunk: More »
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Microsoft Making Ford Sync-like Music, Info System for Hyundai in 2010
3:20AM Jason Chen | Hyundai and Microsoft have just agreed for the latter to develop software for the former’s cars, shoving in a “music and information system” by the year 2010. No details yet, but from the sound of things it seems like Microsoft’s taking advantage of their experience with the Ford Sync system and making voice-control systems to manage stereos and mobile phones. The new system is also interesting because it’s software-updatable, allowing nerds to bring up that old joke about what would happen if Microsoft built cars. The whole thing is aimed at bringing more young people into Hyundais, something Ford Sync was surprisingly good at doing. [Reuters] More »
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Hyundai’s Slim Bad-Ass Provia A7 GPS Has Gaming, “Navi-In-Picture” TV
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | The Provia A7, developed by Hyundai Telematics, is even more souped-up than its predecessor, the horny-making A1. It starts with a slim 7″ 800 x 480 LCD, adds an animated touch interface, then packs in navigation, simultaneous reception of T-DMB TV and TPEG traffic and other data, a removable battery and a freakin’ gaming system…with game controller! It’s all in the video, with catchy “Mappy” theme song, below. More »
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