Gadgetory

that's a big old Gullwing door isn't it this is one of the bells of the ball here at Frankfort 2011 the mirsini is f1 25 concept by the way the end of the name has an exclamation mark on it and for pretty good reason there's an awful lot of tech going on here first of all the power train is an electric motor out at each wheel one on each corner that's not too exotic totals have 313 horsepower but the torque of course would be right now but it's a hydrogen fuel cell car so you can go a thousand kilometers looked at 600 and something miles on a belly of hydrogen except it wouldn't be a belly of hydrogen it would be a body of hydrogen you see they're going to store the hydrogen compressed in cavities around the body and I think I've heard of that before in any of the various hydrogen concepts that are out there now let's talk about some of the technology that's more consumer electronics you see these doors as they go up and down those are gesture control so you walk up to the door and just go huh the door goes up and then the door goes down you've also got gesture control on that nice big display for the passenger if they want to go to the next track on a DVD or a CD they just do this kind of thing menu all this sort of thing is very much like Kinect for example the display to the right of the driver in the central tunnel it's a curved display totally unfocused done by some interesting new rear projection with a sort of an arc algorithm to make sure that it all stays in focus from one projector beam that's amazing and then look at that display important the driver that's actually 3d you can't see that in our 2d stream of course now what's behind all those systems one of the most interesting things to me is a hundred percent Internet streamed infotainment so anything from the media to the weather to the news all these sources coming in they're thinking 100% streaming at this point let me show you an interesting way to configure it so what Mercedes says is as cars get so complex and so rich with their infotainment and settings and configurability you need a way to do all that when you're not just sitting in the car that's one place but other times you've got more time to sit down and think how do I want to set my car up not sitting here in the driveway like some dork so give you this very rich app that they've envisioned for the F 125 let's just go to one part of this the entertainment block here I have a whole variety of sources information and entertainment news weather music the music for example I can take and drag down to this timeline which roughly maps to my route in navigation so these things are going to happen in order of the trip what's in the music this is all Napster powered right now they can have any number of partners though and this is again part of that all streaming entertainment system here are playlists if I go over here here are Napster channels and again you can imagine anybody being in here this could be also Pandora it could be Spotify anyone the his software is software this stuff gets really interesting as you start to go to that level I can bring a weather report down here whatever I want along my route or directly access it in here and of course there are many other settings and configurability options in here to set up a car that now has arguably maybe a thousand different configurations no two cars would be the same it's as they say it's like a smartphone you can sit in and no two smartphones are the same so you start to see how we connect the dots here and need a different interface oh one more thing I want to show you if it's the smartphone you can sit in I do want to sit in it check out the rear seat lounge that's like a corner group I'm gonna see anything that cool since like a 68 Eldorado I'm in