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1:00PM Jesus Diaz | Forget the Darpa’s urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS — equipped with GPS, sensors and guidance systems — is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 20km rally race circuit with 156 turns. More »
Fully Autonomous Audi TTS To Rally Race At Pikes Peak
1:00PM Jesus Diaz | Forget the Darpa’s urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS — equipped with GPS, sensors and guidance systems — is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 20km rally race circuit with 156 turns. More » 
Vehicles
Next-Gen Audi A8 Includes Handwriting Recognition, Bafflingly
10:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Think texting while driving is dangerous? How about leaning over to the centre console to scrawl “NEAREST BATHROOM!!!!!” on your car’s navigation system with a stylus? Audi’s next-gen A8 includes handwriting recognition to make that dangerous dream a dangerous reality. More »
Design
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We have seen Gerry Judah’s amazing work before, which mix awesome engineering and technology to get almost-impossible pieces, like this 32 metre high, 44 tonne sculpture showing two Audi cars shooting into the sky. Up close it’s mighty impressive: More »
Cars Racing On A 32 Metre High Vertical Road Make Me Wish For Antigravity Engines
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We have seen Gerry Judah’s amazing work before, which mix awesome engineering and technology to get almost-impossible pieces, like this 32 metre high, 44 tonne sculpture showing two Audi cars shooting into the sky. Up close it’s mighty impressive: More »
Music
Bang & Olufsen Crams 7.1 Surround Sound Theatre Into 2010 Audi A5
7:30AM Jack Loftus | Bang & Olufsen’s long-standing partnership with Audi will soon produce a sound system in the upcoming 2010 A5 Sportback that arguably rivals many modest home theatres. More »
Vehicles
Audi R8 V12 Supercar is the First 100% LED-Equipped Automobile
10:00AM Jack Loftus | Even if you can’t afford a luxury supercar like the Audi R8, take solace in the fact that its cutting edge all-LED design will trickle down to your jalopy. Eventually. More »
Vehicles
Audi Travolution Syncs Car to Traffic Lights (Sadly Not Other Way Around)
10:10AM Wilson Rothman | If you drive in cities, you know the game where you guess the exact speed to, say, cruise down Lexington Ave hitting all the green lights in sequence. With Audi’s Travolution system—currently piloted in Ingolstadt, German—that game is no longer necessary, because 46 traffic lights report in to the car’s computer, and the car tells you the speed you should go to hit all of them when green. More »
Design
Is this the Futuremark 3D OpenGL-Powered Car Dashboard of the Future?
9:10AM John Mahoney | We’ve seen all-digital concept dashboards before, but none seem as impressive 3D (or close to reality) as Futuremark’s. It scraps everything behind and to the right of the wheel in favour of a smooth, uninterrupted display onto which an OpenGL powered 3D engine renders everything you might need–instrumentation, navigation, entertainment system controls, climate controls, everything.
Gadgets
Chimera BC16 Modular Synth is Cheap, Colourful, Cute
12:30AM Addy Dugdale | Although it’s not shipping until January 2008, Chimera Synthesis is taking orders for its BC16 mono synth. It’s the first product from the UK-based company, and will be followed next year by its PH303 (any Chicago House fans out there will be feeling hot under the collar right now) and the SM16, a 16-step analogue sequencer. Powered by two 9v batteries, the BC16 can be used either free-standing or linked to an external sequencer or MIDI-CV converter, and costs $US229. [Chimera Synthesis via Music Thing] More »
Vehicles
TTYL, Going to Drive Iron Man’s Car
4:16AM Brian Lam | Hey, I’m taking the afternoon off to drive a few new fine Audi R8s, strictly to find out more about the tech under the hood and on the dash of course. That’s the car, soon to be featured as Iron Man’s car in the upcoming movie. Let’s hope Downy doesn’t wrap it around a tree method acting Tony Stark’s drinking habits. Let’s hope I don’t wrap it around a tree today. PS, I’ve got my Valentine One on Friday. P.P.S. You can read up on the car at Jalopnik, but what do you guys want to know about it? More »
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