Navdy: Tech Startup Debuts A Head-up Display For The Masses – Video
So you’re not already driving one of the few models equipped with a head-up display, but you’re keen to upgrade. Ordinarily, you’d have two options: buy a new car, or find a way to mount your smartphone close to your line-of-sight wit
So you’re not already driving one of the few models equipped with a head-up display, but you’re keen to upgrade.
Ordinarily, you’d have two options: buy a new car, or find a way to mount your smartphone close to your line-of-sight without creating an obstacle in your view ahead.
A new tech startup, Navdy, wants to give you a third option: the eponymous Navdy display.
The new device is designed to sit atop the dash, where useful information is projected onto a clear panel that folds out of the Android-powered base.
The design is similar in concept to the pop-up display in the new Mazda3, however the Navdy system is designed for even tighter integration with Android and iPhone handsets.
The Navdy unit can provide turn-by-turn satellite navigation with spoken directions and, working with your phone, offers voice-activated controls - through either Siri or Google Now - for phone calls and the reading and composition of text messages.