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hello car tech fans is antuan goodwin with cnet com I'm on the floor of CES 2012 behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 Carrera but I'm not here to talk about the car i'm here to talk about the technology and the dashboard this is Q a nexus car to applications platform and it's basically their vision for what car technology of the future is going to look like so what we're starting with here is an all digital dashboard we've got a touch screen here in the center that's get applications built into it communications it's very similar to what you've seen in the QX is parent company blackberry playbook so we've got our applications here pretty much any app that you could run on a blackberry playbook you'd be able to run here as long as the vehicles not moving moving on we've got this sort of all digital instrument cluster that's completely configurable you can set it up to a track mode and sort of show like a race track they basically swapped this whole thing out with a big LCD one of the next interesting things that they've done is they've taken all of the hassle out of bluetooth pairing all you have to do is take an NFC equip phone drop it into a certain point on the car and it will automatically handle all the pairing for you now once you're paired and talking they've taken all the sort of Machinists out of voice communications what really call their ultra HD audio technology now that's actually CD quality phone conversations that you can have in stereo I've actually got a demo earlier where a gentleman like walked back and forth and we can hear the voice traveling back and forth across the car now what's interesting about that is you can then you that same protocol for audio streaming so it's not just for voice it's also for audio and simplify things for that technology in the future finally if you look back behind me we've got a couple of tablets here in the back seats they're connected to the dashboard and by extension connected to the internet so you can do things like stream audio stream video play games from these things and even skype video conference from the high speed internet connection that's built into the car this is just a proof of concept it's a basically a bunch of really cool things that we can hope to see from q1 next they're working with oems to sort of bring this thing to the car of the future and we're looking forward to it I'm antuan goodwin behind the wheel of Q an active card to applications platform