HornTones gives your car its own soundtrack
Written by admin on February 26th, 2008 in gadgets.
Car horns have only one tone, but multiple meanings. Often, honking it can not only be misunderstood, but it’s omnidirectional nature means it just about everyone within earshot gets the message. Now, you can’t do anything about the omnidirectional nature, but you sure can add more meaning to your honking by changing the message from time to time. HornTones helps to do just that.
Horntones is basically a car horn married to an mp3 player. The player has 256MB on board memory for MP3 audio clips and a USB slot to upload more. Like a stereo, 10 preset triggers allow the driver to customize and assign tones for just about any given situation. New tones can be converted by uploading your file to horntones.com and and downloading it back ready to install via USB key. One important thing to remember, it is illegal to use siren wails, bells, and whistle sounds. Those are reserved for emergency vehicles.
Additionally, Horntones doesn’t replace your normal horn, it operates alongside it. For $299 (three hundred in disquise), you get the Horntones Player including mounting bracket and thumbscrews, cable, audio amplifier and the Horntones sounder (an additional horn speaker). Installation requires some degree of mod skills, so the faint of digital heart may want to have it installed professionally.
Hat Tip: Think Geek via TechEBlog
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