Azentek stocking DiMora's $2 million ride with in-car electronics

If you thought the MyGIG or even Bose's Media System was high-class, Azentek is out to change your perception. Recently, the firm inked a deal with DiMora Motorcar "to provide high-performance computers for the Natalia SLS 2 sport luxury sedan." The ride, if you weren't aware, will be a hand-crafted $2 million, 16-cylinder production automobile, and will sport "at least two Atlas units" which boast voice recognition, FM / XM Radio / Sirius / HD Radio, Bluetooth, CD / MP3 / WMA / DVD support, GPS navigation, VoIP / cellphone integration, "over a terabyte" of storage, and Windows Vista for good measure. Additionally, users will be able to interface with the machines via touchscreen, keyboard / mouse, a handset, USB, auxiliary inputs, etc. Sure makes Blue&Me look like child's play, no?

[Ross @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:16AM]

I went on the website for the DiMora Natalia and among the list of amazing claims about the proposed technology for the car is:

"NASA Foam Technology

The interior will feature NASA foam technology combined with a newly-created gel lin­ing and newly-created leather. This will provide unparalleled interior comfort."

Surely they DON'T want to advertise that the car uses NASA foam?

[William @ Aug 27th 2007 11:43AM]

I'm more curious about the, "newly-created leather".
Surely there can't be THAT many new innovations in cow skin?

[RE @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:33AM]

The software they are using is called Centrafuse.
http://www.fluxmedia.net/

Still has bugs in it.

[Shadowise @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:23AM]

I guess if you're going to spend $2 million on a car, you have more money than sense.

[fernando @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:34AM]

I see an option for "web" on the interface. Um, not a good idea when driving.

[artifex @ Aug 22nd 2007 9:29AM]

Web's fine to have, assuming you will be parked for a lot of the features you will use. But that's an ie icon, so yikes! Why would you build a system like that on Vista?

[fernando @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:37AM]

A terabyte of storage seems a little unnecessary, no?

[Chris @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:39PM]

fernando:
> A terabyte of storage seems a little unnecessary, no?

... not if it's running vista ;)

[meaca @ Aug 29th 2007 12:13PM]

Not for 2 million....

[Clark H. @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:44PM]

damn, and I thought I was selfish for wanting a car that runs.

[BDG @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:24PM]

Sounds like a "vapormobile" to me

[mister winkers @ Aug 25th 2007 2:22AM]

but, lets not forget, will it play doom? ^_^
O_O mrahwr!! Vista ='( !! ahhhhhh!!1 I played Quake 4 on a Pc with an 8800GTX and AMD X62, 4GB of memory, and it ran like poop! Lagg!!

[Evan Spielberg @ Aug 26th 2007 8:53PM]

I'm sure they were referring to memory foam, not the exterior foam. Memory foam is what they put in expensive pillows.

I like this setup, no compromises, put all the tech in.