Sick of Clear Channel style FM radio? Not interested in canned satellite broadcasts? Then "Roadcasting" may be for you.
Five students at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Computer Interaction Institute Masters Program project, sponsored by General Motors, have developed an in-car sound system called "roadcasting" that allows users to create and listen to music playlists. While this isn't necessarily new, the roadcasting technology broadcasts the playlist beyond the car so that other roadcast enabled cars can pick it up. Listeners can search by bands, genres, and song titles, and skip through other users' radio stations to find music they want to hear.
This is part of the continuing evolution of the technology consumer that we're seeing with peer-to-peer networks and RSS feeds. Consumers no longer want to be force fed...they'd rather pull in what they want.
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