"One of the hottest items we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the Internet-connected Dash Express GPS navigation system, is finally on sale. For the next 30 days, it will be available exclusively at Amazon.com's electronics store (and Dash's own site), for $400." (Check out the rest of the article on PC World).
I haven't bought the Dash yet (I will do it at one point), but at first glance it looks like a great product. GPS 2.0 – Internet connected GPS. Great idea, but why is it coming out only in 2008? Why are so many CE devices still not Internet enabled? I have been asking this question for at least 8 years (Since 2000). Take CD players as an example. Although iPods are taking over the world, most people still buy CDs (and a lot of them). Wouldn't it make sense to have a CD player that connects to the internet and displays CD information from Gracenote? I would have expected this functionality to be in every music-playing system, from my home stereo to my car, to my Bose iPod speakers.
I did a quick search on the internet, and the top CD players (like the one below, Onkyo DX-7555) are still exactly the same as they were 15 years, displaying songs in a "modern" 1-1 format. There are some products out there like the Olive Symphony CD Player, but those are very expensive systems with integral hard drives. All I want is an old-fashioned CD player with an internet jack.
Now that we have GPS 2.0, I am waiting for CD Player 2.0, DVD Player 2.0, and Alarm Clock 2.0.
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