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what's up guys this is Antoine Goodwin cnet.com I'm on the floor at CES 2013 in the Garmon booth with Kip Donna leader of Garmin and we're about to take an extremely early first look at Garmin's idea for the dashboard of the future this is the k2 infotainment platform and it's basically garments take on how they would handle the dashboard if they handle the whole thing now before you get a little worried about Garmin doing dashboards know they've been doing airplane dashboards for years so they've got a pretty good idea of how the sort of interface design thing works so Kip why don't we walk through exactly what we're working with here sure in the center console here we have a ten point four inch capacitive touch display and underneath that we have a bank of buttons that allow you to jump to between the different modes of the system as well as some audio preset buttons down below it yeah those are always really good just to me when you're driving yeah so we've got navigation here I'm assuming this is the really good Garmin navigation is there anything new that we're seeing from your turn-by-turn directions these yeah let me know and let me go and start a route we've we've situated the vehicle in in Chicago and in addition to having Garmin's normal navigation capabilities we also have for the first time some very immersive 3d graphics and so we're driving past Grant Park right now in downtown Chicago and you'll see as we drive the route that we have realistic representations of buildings as well as landmarks now we already know you guys do navigation well you've been doing that for a long time let's talk about some of the the other communications things that you kind of have working in this new k2 system so communications is a big part of the story and so we have a Android phone that's tethered using a Garmin path and it's tethered over Bluetooth and it allows you to access any of the data or apps on the system and do so in a safe way so the types of things I'm going to show you here are things that you do while the vehicle is stopped so for example you can pull up any contact information off of your phone we had a little bit of fun with this and we pretended that this was Abraham Lincoln's phone and the type of contacts that he would have on it so it's pulling this it's pulling the pictures as well as all the contact information from the phone in addition you can you can do text messaging from it again this is all being enabled by the smartphone talking I just sent the Abraham Lincoln's phone an email and you'll see this is the type of pop-up that you would get when you were driving and you could hit play and using text-to-speech it would it would read to you the email just came in so we have a what we refer to as a message center which is can be customized for a particular driver so you can select each one of these columns is what we refer to as a tool and you're able to select different types of things that you want to have access to easily from your car so for example here you're seeing calendar information from your smartphone same thing we've got email in here as well we've got you can select things like weather now this this giant 10-inch screen right here in the dashboard is just one of two screens that you guys are showing off that's part of this k2 infotainment platform I'm noticing here behind the steering wheel we've got a really large 12 inch screen that's integrated pretty well if I might add into the sort of bezel of the instrument cluster yeah like you said this is a 12 inch display both of these displays are driven by the same processor we can drive both of all displays in 1080p video and what this does is it gives you access to relevant information in kind of a summary fashion and you're able to see information related to each one of the modes of the system and control that with buttons on the steering wheel and so right now obviously it's it's showing what's playing on the media player you can also toggle to get to get navigation information if we were actually routing to a destination it would be showing you what Lane you should be in and what your next turn coming up is as well as seeing summary information related to connectivity so it's again pulling from the smartphone and then I'm also understanding that there's some really good voice technology you guys wanted to demonstrate as well yeah so we think that the best solution is a hybrid voice recognition solution where you have some commands that are interpreted onboard but other things that are done off board and so so for example while you're driving you might ask a question such as where can I get a beer important questions in life and it comes back after it goes off board and interprets that question here there's a place called Tilted Kilt pub and eatery just ahead on North Wabash Avenue and this is ready to go now this is all set up and it could be installed maybe in the vehicle as soon as you guys find a partner to take it it's it's still a bit of a work in progress but you can see that we've we've accomplished a lot in just just a handful of months this past year but yeah we are ready to have discussions and are already having discussions with OEMs and hope to have this in a vehicle sometime in your future awesome well this has been the Garmin k2 infotainment platform we've been here with Kip from Garmin and I'm Antoine judolette cnet.com