Digital Technology for Digital Living.
July 30, 2004
Consumers Love A Knob More Than Anything.
Or at least that’s what Alpine Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications Steve Witt thinks. They’ve just announced the KCA-420i, an interface for the iPod. The interface is a white box that sits between the iPod and an Alpine Ai-NET head unit, it can be installed anywhere in your car you see fit. Under the seat, in the boot, or mounted on the dash if you’re really showing off. The beauty of the unit is that it means you can control the iPod from an Alpine deck installed in your car. From the head you can view the artist, album, and song names during playback and search through your collection by playlist, artist, or album. You can also use the Alpine’s remote. If you really want to get fancy you can add their Mobile Media Stations and have a true multimedia display. The KCA-420i is compatible with any iPod and iPod mini with dock connector and iPod Update 2004-04-28.
MacCentral report that the idea first started when Apple approached Alpine at 2003 Consumer Electronics Show. It also seems that the two plan to do more in the future.
Here in Australia, Alpine have confirmed that we should expect it at about the same time, September, and their guess is the price will be around $AU300.
Gadgetman | | Music
July 31st, 2004 at 12:08 pm
Now I know why Eddie McGuire is so popular.
Chrimbo is waay too far away. Great site you’ve built up Richard, I’ll be back regularly for more hoshiimonos