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[kornkob]

i had thought about doing this but on a larger scale, i work at best buy and can get a pack of two 7" lcd screens and dvd player for a car for about $160, put one in dash, one behind the passenger seat. write a program to handle usb on xbox, write drivers for usb-gps unit we sell for laptops (not sure how hard it would be, depends on their implementation, might be simple serial protocol like the old ones), webcam (cheap best buy brand webcam, i've logged the traffic, its just an iso xfer of the picture data, easy to interpret) running off the bumper (somewhere in the back of the car if not outside) for looking to see who's behind me at night, modded controller installed in-steering wheel, not all that hard to gut one and in-lay switches, modded xbox for movies/music/games, can run audio out into either a home receiver or just a car head unit. and then to go all out, a usb wireless adapter for when you're driving through a town with free wireless internet. it isnt all that far fetched and would be a lot easier using linux but im not all that familiar with it, all the drivers are probably already there.

[fghjj]

A nice 12 volt touchscreen with an Xbox resolution (720x480/576 480p 720p 1080i) and USB mouse emulation would work I guess, why not? Just need to invest enough $ in it

But for anything more then XBMC/Xbox games I would go for a non-Xbox solution. Cause c'mon, by the time you are done coding a new USB stack + dozens of drivers + navigation app for native Xbox we will all have flying cars and PS3's.

If you use something like a tablet PC with Windows, you:
- already have a touchscreen
- already have drivers
- can do video / audio
- can attach a wireless gamepad and run games / emulators
- can attach a USB GPS and run some excellent navigation programs with spoken directions etc.
- can attach a second monitor for the backseats
- can attach a USB DVD drive and mount it anywhere
- use a standard laptop 12V adaptor that won't drain much power
- use dozens of webcams for cool stuff©
- probably already have built-in WiFi
- attach a cell phone to arrange your calls / show who's calling / surf the internet with GPRS,UMTS,HSPDA
- send through GPS / webcam (driver's face!) data when your car is stolen (security code isn't typed within 1 minute)

And all you have to do is write a simple GUI to tie it all together

[raid517]

Yes but this discussion is about the Xbox and about XBMC, not about a PC.

Everyone is answering all sorts of questions except the original one that was asked - which is can this be done? Can XBMC be intergrated with a touchscreen?

Has anyone suggested this yet on the official XBMC forums?

My own ideal scenario would be if I could have XBMC on a portable media player. (Like my Archos AV4100) How cool would that be if XBMC worked on a whole bunch of different PMP's?

GJ