Tech snippets

BMW car self parks in a garage
There is still some time before cars start doing all the driving all by itself becomes a reality, but for a start, German Auto giant BMW recently showcased a new parking technology in its Munich headquarters with which the company's new cars will be able to neatly park itself in a garage at the press of a button. Unlike most automated parking systems which require the driver to remain the car, this system is triggered by a button on the car's keys. However this system won't just work anywhere as you need to place a reflective lens against the wall of at the head of the parking space, which is used by a miniature video camera on the car's front windshield to park the car automatically. Most of the part the system uses is already contained in the latest 7-series; BMW says the technology will be available in the next 3 years.

Panasonic's 103 inch Plasma TV goes on sale
What's about 7 and a half-feet long, 4-feet tall, has about 30 square feet of viewing space, a 3001:1 contrast ratio, pushes over 2 million pixels progressively? That'd be Panasonic's behemoth 103-inch plasma TV. And you thought 80 inches was huge! "Our 103-inch 1080p PDP promises high quality images with high brightness, dynamic contrast, high resolution and excellent colour reproduction that projection displays cannot match. We believe it will create strong demand as a multipurpose display for business, educational and medical applications as well as home theatre use", says the company's press release.