Car owners who live in places with extreme weather know how terrible it can be to sit in a car surrounded by snow waiting for it to heat up or to sweat in a sauna waiting for your A/C to cool down.

Is this the killer app smartwatches have been waiting for? Viper launched SmartStart – a mechanic-installed gadget that let you wirelessly start your car, open the trunk, and more – back in 2009.

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Anyone with a Viper alarm system and an iPhone->ke3555 or Blackberry has had the luxury of the Viper SmartStart app for quite some time now. People with an Android, well, they got nothing. It so what ...