iPods and Macs taking over cars

Woo , I take my "Macs aren't goinganywhere" post back, as they're certainly going one place in a big way lately: cars. I have a doubledose of iPod/Mac in-car news coming at you from our sibling site, Autoblog. First up: they caught wind of a projectionfrom the Telematics Research Group that by 2011, 73 million cars onthe road could have iPod integration. I'm no profe ional, but I'll to my own prediction into the hat: by 2011, a lotof un-burned blank CD's are going to be lying around.

Next on the list is probably the slickest "Mac mini in acar" setup I have seen to date. As if one Mac mini feeding two scree in a 2006 Infiniti M45 ort i 'tenough, the creator is also using a Palm Treo 650 and Salling Clicker to run the setup, as well as Rsync X and an AirPort network to keep the mini's library in tunewith a PowerMac G5 in the house. Oh yea, how could I forget the Mac mini also seems to be ru ing Front Row? Maybethat's why this setup wa 't featured on that new "Big Ideas" page A le just put up.