This seems like an elective, preventative technology. The people that would purchase something like this would most likely be parents for a shared or primary teen-used autombile. As some posts above mention, adults might also choose to purchase such as device as well. The cost of preventing a DUI or accident will almost definately be lower than the costs.
That said, many states currently require breathalizers to be installed and attached to the ignition of cars for repeat DUI offenders - at the drivers cost.
Evidently the Phantom has made an appearance at the Microsoft booth at CES. According to Mike Hall's blog, it's running on WindowsXP Embedded.
Below is the text describing the system. There's also a nice picture posted there as well.
Next is the Phantom from Infinium Labs (Windows XP Embedded), this is quite an interesting device, I guess most people have XBOX's, Playstations, Nintendo Game Cubes or other dedicated game consoles - the Phantom plays PC games - a user gets offered a list of games (the Phantom supports all current and future Windows PC games according to the Infinium web site), the games are downloaded into the Phantom and then played on your TV set - since these are PC games you control the games through a keyboard and mouse - the keyboard/mouse being displayed with the Phantom on the Microsoft booth has an interesting "Lap" console for the keyboard and mouse - apparently it's quite comfortable to sit and play games using this.
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This seems like an elective, preventative technology. The people that would purchase something like this would most likely be parents for a shared or primary teen-used autombile. As some posts above mention, adults might also choose to purchase such as device as well. The cost of preventing a DUI or accident will almost definately be lower than the costs. That said, many states currently require breathalizers to be installed and attached to the ignition of cars for repeat DUI offenders - at the drivers cost.
Evidently the Phantom has made an appearance at the Microsoft booth at CES. According to Mike Hall's blog, it's running on WindowsXP Embedded.
Below is the text describing the system. There's also a nice picture posted there as well.
Next is the Phantom from Infinium Labs (Windows XP Embedded), this is quite an interesting device, I guess most people have XBOX's, Playstations, Nintendo Game Cubes or other dedicated game consoles - the Phantom plays PC games - a user gets offered a list of games (the Phantom supports all current and future Windows PC games according to the Infinium web site), the games are downloaded into the Phantom and then played on your TV set - since these are PC games you control the games through a keyboard and mouse - the keyboard/mouse being displayed with the Phantom on the Microsoft booth has an interesting "Lap" console for the keyboard and mouse - apparently it's quite comfortable to sit and play games using this.