Why your subsequent automotive might have a Swarovski crystal touchscreen

Is the world’s flashiest infotainment display?

Continental has used this 12 months’s CES tech present in Las Vegas to disclose what it claims to be a “world-first” infotainment display that’s semi-transparent, and is totally made out of Swarovski crystal.

The German automotive know-how and software program firm, which most notably additionally produces tyres, partnered with Swarovski Mobility with a view to create this so-called Crystal Middle Show.

The unit on show at this 12 months’s CES tech present measures in at 10 inches and options “the most recent microLED know-how” that’s claims to supply “unprecedented ranges of brightness and distinction”.

The Swarovski crystral show is frameless and tinted. It creates an phantasm that the content material being displayed is floating, and likewise permits the driving force and passengers to see proper by way of to the dashboard behind it.

At this stage it’s unclear if this Swarovski crystal infotainment display is able to capacitive-touch performance, nor when it is going to be applied right into a manufacturing automotive.

“With the Crystal Middle Show as a key element, we need to flip the world of inside design on its head and create an revolutionary focus for premium automobiles of the longer term – one which grabs consideration and stirs feelings,” stated Continental head of the person expertise enterprise space Dr Boris Mergell.

“We’re shifting away from the simple show of data and elevating it to a extremely personalised person expertise.”

“The Crystal Middle Show is the results of a mix of manufacturing and course of applied sciences which along with Continental we applied into an revolutionary new design aspect – one that’s as spectacular visually as it’s technically,” stated Swarovski Mobility senior vice chairman B2B and managing director Peter Widmann.

“On this means, our crystal turns into way more than simply an inside design aspect – customers expertise it as a key interplay interface within the car.”

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