This article by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum provides a profile of the PhatNoise PhatBox, an car mp3 player powered by an internal embedded Linux computer. The article examines how the device works and what's inside — from both a hardware and software perspective. Lehrbaum writes . . .

“Dannie Lau, CEO of the company he co-founded in 1999 along with two other UCLA Electrical Engineering graduates, sums up the mission of PhatNoise this way: 'As music enthusiasts, we were frustrated by the limited storage and scalability of today's portable digital audio players. So we've gone beyond those concepts and quite literally looked down the road to design products that help users save and sync incredible quantities of high-quality digital audio from their desktop systems for playback using their own car stereos”

“That vision led the company to develop the PhatBox car audio system, which won 'best overall product' at the Third Annual MP3 Summit earlier this year. The innovative device lets consumers take high quality audio files from their PCs, and play them using the existing sound system of their cars. It's basically an mp3 jukebox, powered by an internal computer running Embedded Linux, that emulates a car CD changer.”

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