Hands- and eye-free email for busy drivers
Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc (IMS) has announced 
that it will soon release a “hands-free and eyes-free mobile email solution” which will keep drivers in touch more safely when they are on the road.
iLane is a box about the size of a home modem-router that sits in your glove box. Its voice-based interface can tell you when new emails arrive on your handheld, read a summary of the message and then listen as you dictate a reply or forward an attachment.
Unlike other voice-based solutions, iLane does not require a remote server to convert emails into voice files. It does all the work in your glove box.
Because it frees your hands and eyes from your handheld, it helps you to “stay connected to critical information without sacrificing your on-road safety.”
The web site claims that the device works with “BlackBerry handheld devices running the BlackBerry OS 4.0 and up. iLane will also support Bluetooth-enabled handheld devices and smart-phones that run on the Palm OS, Windows Mobile OS and Symbian OS.”
The iLane web site contains a FAQ and an opportunity to sign up for news of its actual roll-out.
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July 25th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Perhaps “router-sized” should be clarified… maybe “home-router-sized” or “Linksys-router-sized”… Most of the other routers I have seen were not sized in such a way as to fit in a glove box. :)
An Apple car computer to do this and more would be nice. If only they could do more stuff and yet still have it all be good.
July 26th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve led a sheltered life. I’ve never seen a router that wouldn’t fit in a glove box.