More vehicles are being produced with Bluetooth integration built into the car, so you can speak and listen through your vehicle audio system when you have your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone with you. For the many other cars that currently do not have this integration built in, Motorola has a pretty nice solution.

The Motorola IHF1000 Bluetooth Car Kit is a package of components, most of which are hidden away, that allow you to have wireless and hands-free mobile phone use and conversations in your car. There is a small device pictured here that you mount within reach of the driver which allows you to do basic functions on your Bluetooth enabled phone with voice commands or simple touches to the buttons. In fact, the device will allow you to integrate with up to four different phones that have Bluetooth capabilities.

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GM has released plans to introduce a upgrade to the common key fob for their higher end SUV style vehicles such as the Cadillac Escalade. The new key fob will be the first to offer two way communication between the device and the vehicle, as well as offering a liquid crystal display.

The remote gadget will be able to lock and unlock the doors and set of a panic alarm as most key fobs would, but the difference lies in what it gets back from the vehicle. The key fob will be able to display that status of the vehicles door locks, tire pressure, odometer reading, fuel level, radio settings and more, according to an article in USA Today.

Vehicle makers have been adding more features to the remote access of vehicles, such as unlocking doors when you get close, associating seat and mirror settings, …

This is an awesome safety gadget created by HitchCam to prevent accidents, especially with small children, when backing up with your SUV, pickup or really any vehicle.

HitchCam provides a number of solutions, but the pictured LCD monitor here is one of the coolest. When you put your big rig into reverse, the small LCD monitor slides out from the side of your rear view mirror and displays what is on the camera, allowing you to view what is behind you. When you shift back into park or drive, the camera automatically slides back into the rear view mirror and out of site.

HitchCam has a number of video viewing devices available aside from the rear view mirror mount, including a 2.5″ custom color monitor and seamless integration into a video system already installed into …

iLane is a hands-free and eyes-free solution for managing email messages and attachments, phone calls, SMS messages and calendar appointments while in transit using voice commands. The iLane device interacts directly with existing Bluetooth enabled handheld devices and vehicle audio systems or headsets.

iLane integrates with the audio system in your car to notify you as new messages arrive on your handheld device or smart-phone. Using voice commands you can then listen to a summary or the entire message, compose a reply, or forward an attachment. The iLane system can manage email messages and attachments, calendar requests and appointments, SMS messages and phone calls, all without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road.

Upon entering your car, iLane will recognize your handheld device and control how incoming information is managed – based on your settings. This information is communicated to …

You are looking at a moving vehicle that has the PimpStar rims from Dub. These rims have built-in full color LED lights with a microprocessor and wireless modem on each wheel. This allows you to sit in your vehicle with the included software on your notebook PC and place virtually an image, text or a combination of both to display on your rims while driving. You can display the same thing on all rims or have something different on each one. All this can be done and changed as often as you want while you drive.

The included software for the Pimpstar rims allows you to pre-load a set of images to each wheel and allows them to change at different time intervals.

The rims can come in many, many different styles, are completely waterproof and run off of the vehicles electrical system, so there …

Pictured here is the Sony Xplode CDX-GT510 CD/MP3 Car Stereo Receiver. If you are one of those who want to take their digital music collections on the road in their car, Sony released some new car receivers that will make this a lot easier. Sony announced the release of 4 versions of the Xplod in-dash CD car stereos. These car stereos give you more options for playing burned CDs, MP3 and WMA files in your car. How it works is that the stereo has an auxiliary input port on the faceplate so you can plug in your portable music player into the stereo with a standard 1/8-inch mini jack. When I first saw this announcement I was hoping I would be able to upload my music into the car stereo itself, but this is not the case. It simply allows you to …