Video: RX-8 controlled from an iPod Touch

Multitouch Barcelona is a wonderful new project encouraging people to interact with technology. They also make pretty interesting videos : Shepard Fairey and crew do work If people can do this with their iPods (via PSFK ) … …then we can't be too far away from this

This iPhone controlled Mazda RX-8 by Jonathan Oxer takes the cake. Using a wi-fi connected iPhone the user can connect to a computer in the car which is connected to the Net using a separate internet connection. With this setup the user can now open doors, start the engine, monitor all of the car stats such as RPM, temperature, fuel tank, and if that isn't enough you can even see where the car is on a Google map. The car's webserver provides a password-protected web interface optimised for full-screen display on an iPod Touch or iPhone running the SOPOD [...]