{"id":642402,"date":"2010-01-25T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5456422"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:46:32","slug":"belkin-tunecast-auto-radio-transmitter-hijacks-your-radio-with-the-power-of-app-belkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642402","title":{"rendered":"Belkin TuneCast Auto Radio Transmitter Hijacks Your Radio With the Power of App [Belkin]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2010\/01\/app.jpg?w=340\" class=\"left image340\"  \/>Right, so <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #fmtransmitters\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/fmtransmitters\/\">FM transmitters<\/a> are generally terrible. Not just because they sound worse than direct line-in connections and even tape adapters, but because they&#8217;re a pain to control. Belkin has solved at least <em>one<\/em> of these problems, for iPhone users.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #belkintunecastauto\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/belkintunecastauto\/\">Belkin TuneCast Auto<\/a> Live transmitter, seen below looking like pretty much every other Belkin FM transmitter ever, has a single, massive trick up its sleeve: an iPhone app that actually controls it. It basically turns your iPhone into a smart remote for your transmitter, which doesn&#8217;t just modulate your broadcast frequency but actually finds the best one, and which in <em>concept<\/em> seems kind of backwards, but makes plenty of sense. It&#8217;s digital + analog &#8211; car crashes! Got it.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_belkkkin.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/><br \/>\nAnyway, the TuneCast transmitter\/app combo is available today, with a price of $80. 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Not just because they sound worse than direct line-in connections and even tape adapters, but because they&#8217;re a pain to control. Belkin has solved at least one of these problems, for iPhone users. As promised, the Belkin TuneCast Auto Live transmitter, seen below looking like pretty much every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H7k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}