Joshua Ellis reports on one of his finds at CES:
Fujitsu Ten’s seems to have something interesting up its’ sleeve for its ECLIPSE line of car stereo receivers — a new technology called E-iSERV which allows the user to capture a “sonic snapshot” of the car via a built-in Memory Stick slot. The user then pops the Memory Stick into a Net-capable system and uploads this snapshot to the Eclipse server, which then uploads audio optimization data into the Memory Stick. The user pops the Memory Stick back into the stereo, which then optimizes its EQ curves to provide, presumably, completely badass car audio. The PR flack I spoke to said that the online interface was completely browser-based and cross-compatible. He also suggested that the subwoofer system would have some inverse wave noise cancellation functions…perfect for canceling out road noise, if that’s really what they’re doing.
Apparently the technology will debut in Eclipse’s CD8454 and CD5444 units, which also, according to the witty little press release before me, can record and play back music files on DUO Memory Sticks. Since the PR flack told another geek at the press conference that the units couldn’t record from the FM receiver, I’d guess it allows you to record analog output from the CD head.
