Cario concept notebook: the wardriver's best friend

Even though it's pretty obvious that Anna Lopez's Cario concept notebook is only meant to be used while parked outside your local NeighborFi hotspot, there are enough idiots out there who would be surfing while driving (never an Engadget reader, of course) that we kind of hope the design lives and dies as a CAD file on Ms. Lopez's PC. Only slightly less dangerous than some of the in-car offices we've seen, the Cario seems to use its lid for support while the user types at a rather uncomfortable angle directly on the screen -- if ever a product screamed for a Bluetooth keyboard, it's this one right here. All in all not a bad idea for those unfortunate individuals who work out of their cars, and despite the fact that we already have a pretty snazzy in-dash PC, we're starting to regret the fact that we replaced our factory steering wheel with one of those tiny, Cario-incompatible chain link numbers. Fashion over function, ya know?

[Via jkOTR]

[Ayle @ Apr 4th 2007 4:39PM]

Because there are no other OS which can be used as a tablet pc as easily as win xp tablet pc edition

[Ayle @ Apr 4th 2007 5:19PM]

Quote for the other site: "This notebook made for people that travel with their cars to work." I doubt that it was designed specifically for the wardrivers.... This would explain the windows tablet pc choice.

[JL @ Apr 4th 2007 5:27PM]

not to be facetious but maybe, just maybe in spite of wishful thinking by more than a few peeps around this place windows (in its various flavors) still is run by most PC's. maybe when linux dethrones windows from being the most popular consumer OS then you'll see things like this showing alternative gui's etc..

I have no doubt that for penetration and other types of network testing and evaluation there are many tools available for Linux over and above what exists on the windows platform. Maybe the concept isn't necessarily designed for wardriving etc (that tagline was presented by the engadget authors)

If someone was going to use this concept computer for wardriving/penetration testing etc, would they not have put something on other than windows?

personally i think a lot of you worry too much about what a device runs vs those who use the devices and whether or not the user can get things done with whatever is on the device.

not necessarily defending windows, but it gets tedious after a while seeing th e same kinds of comments, i do realize that windows is everybody's favorite punching bag.

[McGinley @ Apr 4th 2007 3:57PM]

If this ever is mass distributed,then they'd have to make sure that you cant interact with it at all if the car is moving.

[Paul @ Apr 4th 2007 4:09PM]

It'd be interesting if and when an airbag deploys while the computer is on the wheel.

[Bob Crossman @ Apr 4th 2007 4:22PM]

Looks like another way for "innocent" drivers to kill and maim others. . . .

[Sam @ Apr 4th 2007 4:42PM]

I see dead people...

[dedsm @ Apr 4th 2007 5:27PM]

Ayle, because of people like you, kittens die every day, you can say every bulls**t you want, but please, I beg you, DON'T say windows is a good operating system, don't lie to yourself

[Variblex @ Apr 4th 2007 7:20PM]

HAha and gps units were bad.

I guess if we had a thing were only women could use this while they are putting their makeup, fixing their hair, putting accessories and clothes on their way to work it would be a good idea. they can do everything safely already right?

[Ayle @ Apr 4th 2007 9:09PM]

WTF? I never talked about windows being good I said for the targeted audience for this thing windows XP tablet edition makes sense: people hate learning new stuffs.
And for your information I'm a Linux user.

[threecheersfornick @ Apr 4th 2007 7:54PM]

MAC OR LINUX

[shimman @ Apr 4th 2007 8:33PM]

not sure how to turn the wheel more than serveral tens of degrees.

i wonder what would happen when airbag is deployed

[Dave @ Apr 4th 2007 9:43PM]

http://images.google.com/images?q=head+on+collision

[Jason Gold @ Apr 4th 2007 10:09PM]

That is going to get a lot of people killed, if you know what I mean....

[Shadow @ Apr 5th 2007 12:46PM]

I prefer my approach to wardriving:

http://overdrawn.net/wd/setup4.jpg
http://overdrawn.net/wd/setup5.jpg

Unfortunately, this did make turning rather difficult. I also had to yank the fuse for my horn. The laptop was an old school toughbook that the keyboard died on, so I yanked off the LCD and rotated it and turned it into a ghetto wardriving tablet.