2008 SEMA – Car mounts for gadgets

If it’s becoming difficult to find areas in your vehicle to safely place your cell phone, GPS navigator, or MP3 player so they are easy to access and won’t become a projectile during a hard stop or accident, there may be have a solution. ProClip of Mundelein Illinois, has a full line of customizable two-piece holders for just about any electronic device or vehicle that can easily be installed without any special tools.

When you go to ProClips’s Web site, you first choose the device you’d like to mount—MP3 player, smart phone, PDA, cell phone, GPS, two-way radio, or satellite radio. Then you choose the specific vehicle you want to mount the device in. Depending on the vehicle, you will have several choices on where to mount the holder. For example, if you choose 2008 Toyota Camry, you can mount it to the console air vents, angled to the right of the center air controls, or to the center console. The mounts generally start at $35 and the holders at $30. Larger sized devices or adding swiveling capabilities or power connection capabilities increase the costs.

—John Galeotafiore

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Comments

[melville248]

I think there's a good reason why there is no safe place for all our equipment in a car. Cell phones, MP3 players,GPS systems are all quite distracting. If I saw someone with all these "clipped" to their car's dash it would certainly make me nervous.