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iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer
Johnny Mozzarella writes "MacWorld has a nice write-up on Jesse Melchior, an amateur special effects artist and filmmaker, who used his skills to create a custom installation that is worthy of an iPod mini. The article outlines the materials he used such as latex, plaster and dental acrylic to create an integrated dock complete with blue LEDs and Apple logo in his Ford Explorer."
It has been expressed here previously that the iPod mini has much less bang-for-buck than the regular iPod, which is only a few bucks more but comes with an extra 16GB.
However, if you simply want to buy a Hitachi 4GB mini hard drive, you'll save as much as $150 if you buy the mini and take the drive out over buying the boxed hard drive product.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Might as well just get a the full sized iPod or another MP3 player unless you don't mind waiting till July.
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I Can't See half of the full sized pics in Mozilla due to wrong MIME types. When will these web developers ever learn?
If you RTFA, you will note the dock manages all the connections:
connected the iPod mini to my Pioneer car stereo using the CD-RB10 adapter, which connects to the L+R audio output RCAs from the iPod mini using the line-out from the Belkin car charger. I added two extra cigarette lighter adapters to plug in the car charger and the LEDs. Everything was nicely hidden below the center console.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
smart will be introducing a iPod integration option (complete with charger) in their cars in europe next model year
Sorry to be a pedant, but what skirting ("ground effects") does is induce a partial vacuum, or at least a lower pressure area, within the enclosed underside. The rest of the bodywork produces high pressure over the top of the vehicle, skirting produces low pressure beneath, and Bernoulli does the rest.
The result of all this is increased downforce. FYI, skirting is now prohibited in F1 racing.
Visit Here for a press release. The unit will be available later this year. It integrates all control through the head unit, via the dock connector. You can tuck the iPod away inside the glove box. Still requires you to take your eyes off the road and look at the display of the receiver, however. Until Alpine comes out with an easy-to-install aftermarket heads-up-display...
You know what Ford stands for, don't you? Fix it again, Tony.
No, that would be FIAT.
Ford stands for:
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily
I have no idea where you got that, there isn't even an 'R' anywhere in the phrase "Fix it again, Tony".
Life is too short to proofread.
Alpine is coming out with a HU this summer that will allow you to plug your iPod in, and store it in any location (glove box, center console, trunk, etc..) and the HU will display the song info and allow you to control the iPod. Google for more information, here is a quick link to their press release.