Hackernews posts about Car Thing

Car Thing is a portable, voice-controlled device that integrates with Spotify to play music and control playlists while driving, developed by Spotify as a car-specific audio player.

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20. Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life (arstechnica.com)
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21. Spotify's Car Thing Accessory Is Officially Dead (www.macrumors.com)
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22. Spotify Bricked the Car Thing, So I Hacked Mine [video] (www.youtube.com)
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24. Nocturne: New firmware for Spotify's Car Thing (usenocturne.com)
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27. Spotify has disabled Car Thing streaming devices (techcrunch.com)
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28. The Dream of Spotify Car Thing Is Being Kept Alive by Devoted Tinkerers (gizmodo.com)
    2 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | discuss
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