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Vehicles
Self-Parking Car Works Perfectly If You Stay Out Of Its Way
2:40AM Rosa Golijan | Volkswagen is onto something great with this concept demo. You just step out of this car and it parks itself. Great, now they just need to iron out those details about detecting obstacles like lil’ ol’ grannies crossing parking lots. More »
Gadgets
Dell’s New Solar Parking Lot
4:21AM Chris Jacob | Think about how hot your car gets on a sunny day. Dell decided to harvest all that wasted energy by installing these solar panels in their parking lot. Now they’re keeping cars cool and putting that sunlight to good use. More »
Design
What Is This?
11:00AM John Herrman | My first thoughts: It looks like a cross between a glassed-off launchpad and some kind of prop you’d find in a stunt driving video game. In reality, this is a day-to-day convenience in a major city. More »
Random Stuff
Insecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money
2:02AM Jason Chen | Two presenters at Black Hat 2009 just demonstrated their ability to hack into parking meters in San Francisco (and theoretically anywhere with this kind of system) to give unlimited money on their parking payment cards. More »
Toys
RC Car Mastermind Masami Hirosaka Parallel Parks With Style
6:30AM Jack Loftus
RC Car aficionado Masami Hirosaka does more with this little car in one minute than I’ll hope to do with a real one in my entire lifetime. Notice he doesn’t use the wall as leverage, either. [YouTube via Japan Probe]
Vehicles
Sadistic Parking Gate Smashes Car Hulk Style
9:40AM Jesus Diaz | Some machines are so evil that they will kill other machines just to cause you pain. And yes, I probably find this hilarious because that bloody gate is not destroying my car. [Hiroiro via DRB] More »
Design
3:00PM Nick Broughall | Take one hideously ugly parking station in the heart of Adelaide and add 748 square LED panels and what do you get? 1066 square metres of nighttime lightshow entertainment. More »
Adelaide’s Rundle Lantern Is The Best Looking Parking Lot In Australia
3:00PM Nick Broughall | Take one hideously ugly parking station in the heart of Adelaide and add 748 square LED panels and what do you get? 1066 square metres of nighttime lightshow entertainment. More »
Online
Hackers Using Fake Parking Tickets to Infect Computers
7:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | In North Dakota, oddly enough, hackers have hit on a new way to infect innocent computers: fake parking tickets that direct car owners to a site where they are instructed to download malicious software. More »
Gadgets
Parking Meters From Hell
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Fair warning—crazy French smart meters that detect the presence of cars and tell nearby authorities to come and bust you are making their way to the UK. Are we next? More »
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