The Chrysler Peapod will certainly be turning some heads when it goes into production later this year. The latest news from GEM adds a quirky new feature to the already quirky car: the ability to start the vehicle using your iPod as the key.
Text from the brochure reads:
The Peapod has a key just like you’d expect. But you also get the unexpected: simply dock your iPod for a fun, cutting edge way to start up. Exclusive software developed specifically for Peapod turns your iPod into a key. Both options are interchangeable and secure.
So…how do you get into the car? The wording is just vague enough to suggest “we’re working on that, just haven’t figured it out.” And cutting edge? I can hear it now, the rising clamor. The counterculture statement of a generation. WE START OUR CARS WITH iPODS!!!
I’ll give it three weeks before some clever hacker uses his iPod to steal one of these things. You heard it here first.
March saw a surprising decline in sales of video game hardware and software, despite hardware growth over last year for the Xbox 360. The Nintendo Wii is still the most coveted hardware on the market, but even Nintendo’s cash cow was struggling.
