Take it one step further ... (Score 1)

Just imagine: you get into your car, plug in your mobile and start listening to you favourite mp3s. After a while the music fades and you hear a nice voice telling you:

"You got a call from Peter. Do you wish to take it?".

You now have to choice to say "Yes" or "No" or use the touchscreen on your car-stereo-computer combo to select yes or no. You talk to your friend Peter (if you selected to do so), hang up the phone afterwards using the touchscreen, the music comes back on.

A while later the music fades again, and the voice tells you:

"You got email. Do you want me to read you the title?".

You can also instruct the thing to read you the whole mail. Or you simply stop your car to read it yourself on the display.

Sounds nice, don't you think? All of this could be done using a device similar to this new empeg car stereo. I guess there's enough computing power for simple voice-recognition and handling a mobile phone.

Christoph