The Most High-Tech Rearview Mirror Available
December 8th, 2011 by Armaan Almeida
Though you’ve likely never heard of online retailer and wholesaler Chinavasion, the company now offers a high-tech aftermarket rearview mirror with a whole slew of useful features turning any vehicle into an infotainment powerhouse.
The Complete Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit ($200 or discounts in bulk from Chinavasion) brings most of the features of an advanced car infotainment system into a unit that fits over your standard rear-view mirror and gets its juice either from a dash auxiliary power input or when hardwired to the vehicle’s power grid with an included cable.
Key Features:
- Integrated 4.3-inch touchscreen
- Bluetooth hands-free calling using onboard speaker and microphone
- Touch and voice-based GPS navigation
- 2 Cameras: Rear-mounted back-up camera (included, integrated) and mirror-mounted camera.
- DVR for real-time feed video and audio recording (think traffic collisions)
- Multimedia playback (MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV and 3GP video, MP3, WMA and WAV audio, BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF images, as well as TXT documents) and games (!)
- SD/microSD support, cards up to 32GB
We’d like to get our hands on one, because it may be a nightmare to use or may make us seriously question all those thousands of dollars of factory optional infotainment features built into a $200 mirror.
