Hasta La Gadget!

Monster cable has taken enough time off from suing people to come up with yet another new cable. The Monster iMotion CarPlay 3000 might sound like a made-up product from Mad magazine, but it is in fact a car charger for your iPhone or iPad – with a twist: it lets you control the music with a Ben Kenobi-like wave of the hand.

The cable consists of a torpedo that jacks into the cigarette lighter, a dock connector for the iDevice and a 3.5mm audio-out jack plug which slots into the car stereo. On the back of the charger unit is a sensor which detects your hand movements: Hold it up in a “stop” gesture for play/pause, and wave to the right or left to skip tracks forward or back.

I’m one of those idiots who thinks that cars are for driving, not for entertainment or eating lunch, and that distracting stereos should’t be in there in the first place. And the CarPlay 3000 will probably just make things worse as it picks up the usual movements of driving, skips tracks seemingly at random and generally drives you crazy.

The price? It’s from Monster. so of course it costs far too much. $120 in this case.

Control your iPod like a Jedi with Monster iMotion [CNET]
iMotion CarPlay press release [Monster]

Photo: CNET

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