What is it?
Nissan Ideo
What's special about it?
OK, it looks like something you could build with Legos. But exterior design and performance aren't the important items for the Nissan Ideo. This concept advances some ideas about the interaction of people and their surroundings. Nissan says the Ideo is a medium for connecting the closed passenger compartment of a car to the outside world. As we learned during our stay in Tokyo, Japan's urban environment is densely concentrated with restaurants and shops. The objective for the Ideo is to allow occupants to communicate with places of interest around town by giving them efficient access to the wide variety of information disseminated in a future urban environment.
The Ideo's major interface is a giant display monitor running the full length of the dash. This screen is used to present information to the occupants in a natural manner. Conceptually, the Ideo gathers information provided by the environment and displays it on the screen in a continually updated manner. Information about a distant place is presented in a small, inconspicuous manner that increases in size and prominence as the car approaches it. This allows occupants to virtually stroll through an enormous sea of information. Category selections can be set to match and filter the information.
For example, suppose the system is set for dining information. When the Ideo approaches a restaurant, information such as cuisine type, what's on the menu and real-time seat availability is presented on the screen in text and graphics. The driver can then bookmark information of interest and access it later for further details when the vehicle is stopped.
Why should you care?
Nissan says that instead of being simply a means of transportation, the Ideo is designed to be a means to discover something new. We like what the Ideo represents but wonder if it's simply too much. One of the best aspects of a car is the isolation it provides. Still, some of the Ideo's concepts would be welcome additions to a modern-day navigation system. — Brent Romans
Nissan Ideo
What's special about it?
OK, it looks like something you could build with Legos. But exterior design and performance aren't the important items for the Nissan Ideo. This concept advances some ideas about the interaction of people and their surroundings. Nissan says the Ideo is a medium for connecting the closed passenger compartment of a car to the outside world. As we learned during our stay in Tokyo, Japan's urban environment is densely concentrated with restaurants and shops. The objective for the Ideo is to allow occupants to communicate with places of interest around town by giving them efficient access to the wide variety of information disseminated in a future urban environment.
The Ideo's major interface is a giant display monitor running the full length of the dash. This screen is used to present information to the occupants in a natural manner. Conceptually, the Ideo gathers information provided by the environment and displays it on the screen in a continually updated manner. Information about a distant place is presented in a small, inconspicuous manner that increases in size and prominence as the car approaches it. This allows occupants to virtually stroll through an enormous sea of information. Category selections can be set to match and filter the information.
For example, suppose the system is set for dining information. When the Ideo approaches a restaurant, information such as cuisine type, what's on the menu and real-time seat availability is presented on the screen in text and graphics. The driver can then bookmark information of interest and access it later for further details when the vehicle is stopped.
Why should you care?
Nissan says that instead of being simply a means of transportation, the Ideo is designed to be a means to discover something new. We like what the Ideo represents but wonder if it's simply too much. One of the best aspects of a car is the isolation it provides. Still, some of the Ideo's concepts would be welcome additions to a modern-day navigation system. — Brent Romans
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