Now you can own your own ‘carpool karaoke’ unit

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Good news for those who simply cannot get enough of James Corden’s carpool karaoke: the first fully integrated karaoke car system has been unveiled. Passengers will be able to “sing into a microphone that is linked to a car’s audio system as lyrics are played on the dashboard screen”, noted The Times. The technology is a venture between Singing Machine, a US karaoke company, and Stingray, the Canadian music technology venture that provided Corden’s microphone for his viral singalongs with celebrities such as Adele.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.