{"id":671,"date":"2008-07-03T04:47:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/now-everyone-can-own-a-trans-am\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T18:20:28","slug":"now-everyone-can-own-a-trans-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/03\/now-everyone-can-own-a-trans-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Everyone Can Own A Talking Trans Am"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Voice From the \u201980s to Deliver Driving Directions<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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\u00a0By\u00a0J. D. BIERSDORFER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Published: July 3, 2008<\/p>\n

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Generation X nostalgia and modern technology have come together in the \u201cKnight Rider\u201d Global Positioning System from Mio Technology.<\/p>\n

The Knight Rider GPS (www.knightridergps.com<\/a>) takes both its sound and style from the 1980s television show about a computerized talking 1982\u00a0Pontiac Firebird<\/a>\u00a0named KITT. William Daniels, the actor who was the voice of the sleek black car, narrates the unit\u2019s driving directions. The device, which sports a black exterior and flashing red lights, can be personalized to use one of 300 common names in the greetings and random phrases it utters.<\/p>\n

Although it does not offer real-time traffic updates, the Knight Rider GPS comes loaded with maps of the United States and is ready to go out of the box. It weighs about six ounces, and has a 4.3-inch color screen. It will cost an estimated $270 and is expected to arrive in stores in August \u2014 the month before a retooled version of the \u201cKnight Rider\u201d TV show crashes back onto the airwaves with\u00a0Val Kilmer<\/a>\u00a0cast as the new voice of KITT.\u00a0J. D. BIERSDORFER<\/span><\/p>\n

[ click to read article in the NY Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times A Voice From the \u201980s to Deliver Driving Directions \u00a0By\u00a0J. D. BIERSDORFER Published: July 3, 2008 It was bound to happen sooner or later: Generation X nostalgia and modern technology have come together in the \u201cKnight Rider\u201d Global Positioning System from Mio Technology. The Knight Rider GPS (www.knightridergps.com) takes both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}