People eat, put on makeup, play with the stereo, and of course, talk on their mobile phones while driving. Why not add e-mail to the list? A Waterloo, Ontario company has done just that, and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) says its iLane device — “the world’s first hands-free and eyes-free e-mail solution for in-vehicle use” — is a safe way to do it. The iLane alerts drivers to incoming e-mails on their Bluetooth-enabled handheld device, then reads those e-mails out loud in what the company describes as a “natural sounding voice.”
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E-Mail Moving Into the iLane
Posted by: Jay Lyman July 25, 2006 03:08 PMPeople eat, put on makeup, play with the stereo, and of course, talk on their mobile phones while driving. Why not add e-mail to the list? A Waterloo, Ontario company has done just that, and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) says its iLane device — “the world’s first hands-free and eyes-free e-mail solution for in-vehicle use” — is a safe way to do it. The iLane alerts drivers to incoming e-mails on their Bluetooth-enabled handheld device, then reads those e-mails out loud in what the company describes as a “natural sounding voice.”