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Gadgets

Five Cool Technologies Australia Should Adopt From Japan

Gizmodo AU

Japan is generally considered to be one of the most technologically advanced cultures in the world. With companies like Panasonic, Toshiba, Canon and Sony all hailing from Japan, it really isn’t a surprise. Here are five technologies commonplace in Japan I wish we had in Australia.

August 10, 2010
Gadgets

San Francisco Parking Meters To Adjust Prices Based On Demand

In order to help control the parking situation in San Francisco, the city is set to install smart parking meters that will lower or raise their prices depending on demand.

January 22, 2010

Steve Jobs Wants To Park Your Car

In a patent filed just today, Apple planted a flag in GPS-based “Parking and Location Management Processes and Alerts”. Everyone, quick, check for iValet trademarks!

October 28, 2009
Cars

Self-Parking Car Works Perfectly If You Stay Out Of Its Way

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.

October 25, 2009
Gadgets

Dell’s New Solar Parking Lot

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.

August 19, 2009

What Is This?

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.

August 1, 2009
Geek Out

Insecure Electronic Parking Meters Can Be Hacked For Infinite Money

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.

June 22, 2009

RC Car Mastermind Masami Hirosaka Parallel Parks With Style

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]

May 22, 2009
Cars

Sadistic Parking Gate Smashes Car Hulk Style

newVideoPlayer("/carbarrier_gizmodo.flv", 640, 500,""); 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]

May 18, 2009

Adelaide’s Rundle Lantern Is The Best Looking Parking Lot In Australia

Gizmodo AU

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.

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