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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects
Message-ID: <1989Jul21.073431.17002@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 21 Jul 89 07:34:31 GMT
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greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) writes:
~Here's one answer I've thought about building: a scrolling LED
~character display (like those advertising displays in the woodgrain
~box you see in some stores) which takes voice input from the driver
~and displays messages out the rear window.  The display would fit into
~the rear shelf, and face upwards.  A piece of optically clear glass at
~a 45-degree angle reflects the messages out to the rear.

I saw something like this at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas last January.  They put it behind the red plastic that is often
between the brake lights of new cars.  I think Phillips made it.
No voice input, though.

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