Friday, August 15th, 2008
There’s nothing wrong with Alpine’s new £250 PND-K3 Portable Navigation System, which was first unveiled at CES this January, there just isn’t anything too stand-out either. The unit runs a 4.3-inch screen, sports maps of North America and related islands, includes a 3D view and 6 million points of interest, vocalizes turn-by-turn directions and street names, does Bluetooth hands-free and has moderate MP3 and WMA capabilities off its SD card slot. The “big” feature here is menu and map customization via 8 selectable color schemes, but the lack of live traffic info this price range isn’t winning Alpine any points. If you’re finding all this appealing, you should be able to pick one up as of today.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Alpine’s obsession with building a mental demo vehicles has continued, previous builds include Sinister 6, that chopped Mini Cooper, and last year’s Imprint RLS. This year they went all out, building a fully pimped ski boat and tow vehicle to promote their new Marine line.
This one-of-a-kind boat started life as a battered 25-foot 1994 Commander V-bottom, and was crafted into a custom ski boat ready to make it’s own waves!
Alpine’s guys carved new, and re-molded the factory lines, straightening the fiberglass shell into quite simply something else!The boat ended uplooking 10 times better than when it left its factory in the first place! The team modified the intakes and completely revamped the interior from scratch.
The boat apparently took up 4000 hours of work and took about 5 months to complete. The guys mad enough to take on this mammoth task were Steve Brown, Gary Bell, and Brent Davison - Rather tham than me!
This build is just too mad for words - Happy Sailing!
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Alpine all new CLS, is jamed packed with all the latest car audio offerings from Alpine, check them out!!!
Built-in products
- DVI-9990R DVD Audio/CD Tuner
- PXI-H990 Multimedia Manager™(2x)
- MRV-F900 4/3/2 ChannelPower Amplifier (5x)
- TMI-M990 7″ WVGA Motorized In-dash Monitor (2x)
- SPX-Z18T 3-Way Component Speaker Set (3x)
- NVE-N099P DVD GPS car navigation system
TME-M770 6.5″ Touch Screen Monitor (3x)
- SWX-1042D 10″ Subwoofer (2x)
- SHS-N252 IR Headphone (2 set) (2x)
- KCA-420i iPod interface (2x)
- DVA-5210 DVD-Video-/MP3-/WMA-/CD-Player (2x)
- TUE-T200DVB Mobile Digital TV Reveiver (DVB-T) (1x)
- VPA-B211P VehicleHub (2x)
- TUE-T152 Analog TV Tuner (1x)
- iPod (2x)
System Diagram
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Alpine’s already shown us (however briefly) one of its newfangled in-car audio accessories, and now it’s time for numero dos. The eX-10 is a stylish iPod controller / Bluetooth adapter that includes a dash-mountable, full-color 2.4-inch display unit to clearly show what’s spinnin’ on your iPod. It also comes bundled with a remote to keep you marginally less distracted when flipping through playlists, and it saves you the trouble of hard wiring anything by operating on a spare FM slot. Granted, FM transmitters are always hit ‘n (mostly) miss, but this unit allows users to hook things up via a 3.5-millimeter auxiliary jack if their head unit accepts such an input. Look for this one to start shipping at any moment for £199.99
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