Nigel knows where you've been and whether you opened the windows when you got there. He probably knows whether you visited a fast food restaurant and might recommend you go for a jog. Nigel, as it turns out, is your car.
This week, researchers from the University of Southern California will show off their driver-tracking Mini Cooper—dubbed Nigel—at this year's Body Computing Conference. Nigel is actually a combination of some 230 sensors on the Mini Cooper and an iPhone app that monitors its driver's habits and even creates specific driving games or suggests activities for each of the car's drivers. While the gaming and activities aspect of the Nigel experience was the inspiration to its USC Cinematic Arts developers, the car could also aid its driver's health, says Leslie Saxon, chief of cardiology at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and founder of the Center for Body Computing.
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