If you soon find yourself driving at a reasonable speed down the highway only to catch the impending dopplering stacatto from three-second clips of “Mama Said (Knock You Out),” you may soon share the road with a “Horntones”-equipped vehicle, capable of blasting short MP3 clips from its built-in loudspeaker.
The Horntones FX-550 Player is the heart of the system and is the primary user interface. It has 256 mega-bytes of flash memory to store hundreds of Tones (depending on the length of the audio clips utilized). It features a blue LCD display and has 9 preset buttons. Each button can play a different Tone for the selected Theme. It also has a USB port that is used loading new Themes and Tones. Two negative-trigger inputs are also provided for future use to interface with your extra buttons or other compatible devices.
The Horntones system is only $250, putting it well within the budget of almost any kid who thinks blasting fart noises and Simpson’s quotes at intersections is the height of hilarity.
Product Page [Horntones.com via Gadget Lab]
I’m going to buy one of these and rig it up to play Dixie or La Cucaracha, perhaps both simultaneously.