All you driving freaks, just check out on this! In the near future, you will be able to get the latest updates on the share prices, movie round up in your city, latest weather conditions prevailing in town and even the traffic scenario, all this and more and that too in the luxury of your car. This will be possible through a web-enabled radio, installed in your car, incorporating a voice-activated system offering personalized Internet data. Other features would include news headlines, latest sports scores, stock quotes along with e-mail. Also information about the nearest restaurant.

Car drivers around the world are becoming more and more wary of using their WAP phones and mobile phones while driving due to the danger of losing the concentration while driving. It is here that this technology scores over others. The main advantage of this technology is that this will be a hands free access to information thereby proving a boon for the drivers. Drivers using this radio will be able to speak a single word and get instant results in the car.

Consider this, while driving, if you want to know the traffic conditions prevailing on your route, you have to just say "traffic", without losing sight of the road ahead, and the robotic voice from the iRadio gives an update on the traffic scenario on your route. You can plan your journey accordingly. Or just say "weather" to have an access to the latest weather update. You can also be informed about the quickest route to your destination or the nearest petrol pump.

Motorola Inc. is in the process of developing this technology. The company's iRadio prototype, although in its infancy stage right now, is generating tremendous interest world over. This is an upcoming industry of telematics- wireless telecommunications in cars and trucks. Web enabled cars are likely to triple the company's telematics sales to about $1 billion in the next three years. Motorola is planning to extend the features provided by the radio. New features will include the facility of leaving voicemail while you are away, hear incoming e-mail, paging services or download audio books. Industry estimates put the cost of the first iRadio models between $1000 and $3000.

Motorola is not the first in this emerging category. Clarion Corp. of America had come up Clarion Autopc, last year. It also worked on the same technology. Among automakers, General Motors will provide limited Internet access in the new versions of its models. Some models will have a screen capable of downloading e-mail and doing limited web browsing, but only when the car is in park. Ford Motor Co. is also planning to give e-mail and Internet connections in its luxury models.