It’s still firmly within the realm of vaporware, but a company called Gotuit is working on a TiVo for car radio that they’re marketing as “The Radio That Remembers”:
Users could even program their Gotuit system, a small box mounted behind the dash or in the trunk, to record late-night talk shows while the car was parked in the garage. “It’ll keep processing audio overnight,” says Mike Green, Gotuit Audio’s vice president of manufacturing, “but it’ll know if you’re parked at the airport for six days that it needs to throttle down, so it doesn’t drain your battery.” Other neat features: You’d be able to store favorite songs on the system, and you’d be able to use a small, inexpensive USB drive about half the size of a pack of gum to transfer songs or radio shows between your car and your home computer. Logan expects the system to cost about $299. Initially, the technology would be an add-on to your current stereo system, but eventually he hopes to license his technology to companies like Kenwood or Blaupunkt for use in their products.
We’re a bit skeptical about the “transferring songs of radio shows between your car and your home computer” part of this. If we can’t transfer a TV show between our TiVo and our PC, it seems rather unlikely that the RIAA and the major record labels would let Gotuit include a feature like this in a TiVo for radio.
