Gadgetory

okay the grudge match is on Cadillac is sick of Ford and Lincoln getting all the headlines for sync and MyFord Touch so now they've got an answer cue the Cadillac user experience that refers to a couple of screens in this car the most interesting one is here in the center stack and I'm happy to report and no longer pulls that toaster a thing like Cadillac used to do because there was no point in it going up and down now it's baked right here and this is very cool stuff you've got a lot of things happening that are borrowed from smart phone and PC technology along the bottom here for example you can pin those to use Windows 7 language to have any kind of a shortcut to almost any function in the head unit it could be a radio station on one button a shortcut to a nav function on the next at HVAC control on the next up here on the top this is very much like your smartphone you can drag and drop your home screen icons there and decide I don't want to have navigation there I want to edit that or I want to change Pandora out and make it some other thing a shortcut to my contacts notice you've got a Pandora app here but you won't be able to put just any old app echoed up on this screen Cadillacs gonna curate these and approve them into the system notice that as I'm moving my hand back and forth I'm getting proximity sensing take your hand away you get a simplified screen put your hand back up there and things you need in the moment as it realizes you're about to go for a command become visible that's a nice way to keep things clean until you need it and that allows them to D content along the buttons down here below the LCD you've got relatively few by today's standards of what our physical buttons but even these are capacitive touch as is this screen over here in front of the driver is an all LCD instrument panel as well this is something we only saw before on unbeliev jag and Land Rover about 12 inches kind of a rectangular shape and it's got four modes as well from very simple to high content to give you all manner of information about the vehicle and the media settings and it also leverages or helps the center stack so not everything has to be wedged into here you can have this thing help out with media help out with navigation distribute the information interface across two screens we've also got haptic feedback in this guy let's say I want to go to the odd settings and I'm gonna go to my audio menu and I start to run my finger across these choices I can keep my eyes somewhat on the road because I'm getting a little bump bump bump bump thing haptic feedback really game controller technology in there and a little more on the electromechanical side check this up if I go down here and put my finger underneath this lid it pops open because we're looking at a necklace system here no optical drive that's so 2010 instead you pick up a little sneaky bin right here there's the USB drive back there as well for loading up your iPod or your thumb drive and again all of this is capacitive touch now this is not prototype stuff this is near production basically I'm in a demo unit here but this is coming out on the new Cadillac XTS which is their new 5 Series II class competitor