Dalam Kereta Pun Nak Twitter?

Penangan kemajuan teknologi memang tak sudah. Lepas satu, datang lagi satu. Macam-macam nak diimplikasi kedalam kehidupan seharian. Sampai ada setengah yang mengarut dan tak relevan pada pendapat aku.

Sebelum ini FTN ada menceritakan tentang aplikasi XBOX dan PS3 yang sudah diintegrasi dengan Facebook dan Twitter. Dimana user boleh update status dengan mudah melalui XBOX Live dan PSN.

Hari ini aku terbaca pula tentang kereta yang nak berkomunikasi secara Twitter. Syarikat automotif terkenal di Amerika, Ford Motor sedang cuba menambah aplikasi twitter ke dalam sistem radio (in car entertainment) kereta buatannya supaya boleh berinterasi dengan aplikasi sosial paling popular tahun 2009, iaitu Twitter. Lebih hebat lagi, FORD mencadangkan ia diaktifkan melalui arahan suara (voice command).

Bagaimana agaknya nanti? Memandu kereta, sambil ber"twitter". Apa yang kita dapat? Mungkin lebih banyak kemalangan di jalan raya? Haha

LAS VEGAS: The Ford Motor Co is adding Twitter messages and Internet radio to its in-car entertainment and communication service, known as Sync.

It suggests that the voice-activated system is safer for drivers than trying to manipulate applications on their cellphones.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday that Sync is designed as a way for drivers to do things like chat with their kids and make dinner reservations, “while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.”

The carmaker is one of many companies at the show that are showing off information and entertainment technologies for car drivers and passengers.

Ford’s Sync service, which was developed by Microsoft Corp and rolled out in 2007, already lets drivers do such things as make phone calls and use GPS technology to get turn-by-turn directions and traffic information.

Now, Ford executives said Thursday, Sync will begin working with two Internet radio services in the United States — Pandora and Stitcher.

It will also connect to OpenBeak, which can read your or your friends’ Twitter posts out loud.

Users will need to have the Sync versions of these applications on a phone with a Bluetooth wireless link. — AP

SOURCE : TheStar