Monday, 13 May 2013

Audi Park Itself!

In James Bond's movie which is "Tomorrow Never Dies" where Bond would operate his BMW 750IL with a remote control and how i and i bet you too wish that thing in the movie will come to real and in 2013, that technology becomes realistic and it is happening where in The 2013 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas where the world's most important electronic show.  Audi has shown several new technological aspects and one of them is through this self-driven Audi A7 showing off the brand's piloted parking system and in this case, it not using remote control but using an iPhone as a key remote.

How does it work? Audi has been developing its own self-driving technology, which it prefers to call piloted parking or driving.  The car uses twelve ultrasound sensors to navigate and avoid obstacles.  It parks itself with a combination of sensors in the car, the garage and roads.  The hope is that parking garages will have computers that communicate with the car, telling it where there is open space.  The car is able to make turns on its own and knows how to maneuver around the garage with external laser sensors.  For Audi, one technology with which it hopes to leap ahead is a local Wi-Fi hotspot and integrated 3G/4G for internet access for passengers while on the road.

There is still a lot of auto support that have to be improved in order to make this system functioning well it needs access to the car park's management system, in order to find and and allocate a free parking space and transmit the route to the car.  Since most modern car parks have more than one level or are underground, GPS-based positioning is not really an option, so instead the management system uses Wi-Fi to transmitt the route.


So girls, lets go for shopping whilst our car do the parking! 

Source:  2013 - International Consumer Electronic Show

Terrafugia: The vertical take-off fying car








Imagine in a future that you own a car which is can liftoff and landing, it would be awesome isn't? where you are no more obligated with traffic jams to go to class and won't catch up late for your important meeting or date.wink!.  But, a good thing come with a good price where you have to prepared a half or one million dollar.

Terrafugia, the Woburn, MA, company developing the Transition flying car, has plans for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) sibling.  Basically, Terrafugia TF-X would be tilt-rotor flying machine that would take off and like a helicopter instead of a runway, the TF-X could use helipad or parking lot, the using of helipad and parking lot are important because of Terrafugia's devices are not so much flying cars as roadable aircraft where it can lift you off to your destination a few miles away, the closer you land to destination the better.






StickNFind

Have you ever experienced a situation where you can't find your things which you saw it like 5 seconds ago? and you were like.."Aiyoo..where did i put my keys? i think i saw it just now??" i did, and it happens a lot. like a lot okay...sometimes i hope that i can find my stuff with just using a bluetooth but, it is impossible isn't? 

Well..don't be surprise with nowadays advance technology believe it or not you finally can use a bluetooth to find your things such as gadgets, pets and even human!.  

Reported by The Huffington Post, bluetooh-enabled stickers designed to help you keep track of items after they're lost have been developed.  StickNFinds are pitched as small, chaeap stickers which you can fix on gadgets, children or even pets in order to find them with a handy application when they go missing.  Currently they are seeking $70,000 on a crowdfunding website, and are already well over halfway to their target.



Take a look how it works above.

Source: The Huffingtonpost