iPhone iTouch in din car media system

What started it was I wanted a handsfree phone kit for my car, but I hated all the bulky add on’s so I needed to incorporate it into the car stereo.. the only option here was a car pc. I thought cool, if I get a car PC I can get sat nav, and the list started to get bigger, and soon I wanted a double din touch screen beast, similar to the G4 multi-media computer system.

The main problem is that they are too expensive a pose as a ‘Steal Me’ becon, and I’d hate to come back to my car with a smashed window and no system. Therefore it needs to be portable. Thats when I immediately thought of the iPhone… yeah baby, its realistically a little computer with a phone built in… and with the sickest touch screen usuablity in the world. It would be the perfect companion for your car audio system.

So I started search the web thinking there would be someone doing such a thing. The only things i really found were a GPS app from the guys at Nav N Go and some possible AM/FM radio apps, Oh and that apple are building an in-car system for Mercedes. But there were no way to link your ipod into the dash of your car. There are loads of cradles that hold the iPhone, but they’re crap and dont really intergrate with the dash. I want something seamless and neat and apple! I realise that apple are building this in car system, but I think that having a iPhone attach into your din is perfect as you can take it with you once you get out of the car, your not again having the hassles of seperate computer systems!!!

As a designer I started putting together some designs, and yesterday I came across Tom Worthingtons blog and I thought cool heres a guy thinking the same as me, there must be loads of people out there thinking of it, that when it prompted me to finish of my designs and post my concept of what I would like some one to build… so here they are!

basically with out the iPhone attached it would be a cd/dvd/mp3 player (possibly with a harddrive attached)
there would be a simple lcd display.

I wish I could build it myself and sell it, cause I know everyone would want one, and with the new iPhone SDK out it would easily be possible to make it all possible.

L