Start screen is this kind of funny digital dashboard.

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So we set off down the long straight road across California and Nevada with two GoPros fixed outside the car, and the Canon Digital SLR fixed to the dashboard.

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Inspired by Garmin's avionics and marine technology, K2 turns the car dashboard into a digital cockpit that provides drivers a safe and intuitive way to stay connected and access all the functions they need while on the road.

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Since then, staff editors, reporters and contributors (including those who focus mostly on the magazine) have been using a continuously updated dashboard that is tied to their digital content creation tools.

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News of the veep app came about one month after the Obama campaign launched its own novel digital tool: an online national organizing site called Dashboard.

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PayWizard supports transactions made on multiple devices -- including online, iPads and other tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and digital set-top boxes -- and features a unique, web-based management dashboard that provides detailed real-time activity reports as well as valuable, actionable marketing information on viewer behaviour.

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