Don’t limit yourself to the usual FM transmitters when it comes to playing your iPods through the car head unit of your vehicles. Thanks to Sinjimoru, there is a new and stylish way of docking and enjoying the stored music you have for in-car mobile enjoyment.

Sinjimoru introduces the iDeck, a car-pack suited for people who are fond of listening to tunes on their iPods. The iDeck actually comes in three parts: a car-pack delivering music through a magnetic head in the cassette deck of a car, a cradle for an iPod, and a charger supplying electricity through the cigarette lighter jack.

To date, the iDeck has sold over 3,000 units since its launch in April of this year. The iDeck is slated to be in attendance at the CIETEC2009 in Tokyo this coming October and the CES2009.

(Source) Aving

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Depending on how you look like it, the bottom-line is that Japanese students are getting iPhones for free. The intent for this is not to be charitable but to keep track on the attendance of students, most of which have been skipping classes.

Now if an iPhone would be used, you would think that these kids could still skip class. With an embedded GPS, the school can easily track the attendance of students who are unlikely to lend it to their co-students due to the stored information and private e-mails stored in it.

Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of Internet and computer technology in society.

As a student, you would love to be among the lucky students who would be given a free iPhone. But if you are the type of student who would love to get into mischief and make it a habit to skip class, then perhaps you would pass.

Either way, you got to hand it to Aoyama Gakuin University for adapting technology. Blending technology with disciplining students is a good move considering the iPhone craze has gone beyond just being a simple handset or gaming device as we see it today.

(Source) WBALTV

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