South Korea has one of the worst parking shortages in the world, and Kris Abel explains the strange, genuinely clever fix Hyundai came up with. A flat robot slides underneath a parked vehicle, lifts it off the ground, and carries it away to store it, no driver required and no wasted space for opening doors.

 

Kris also gets into a New Jersey restaurant opening next year built entirely around the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's, complete with nightmarish animatronics and pizza served on the side. He wraps with PurPad, a new MacBook app that hijacks the trackpad's haptics to make it vibrate like a purring cat.

 

If you want the weirdest, most interesting corners of tech news without digging for them yourself, this covers it.

 

Topics: Hyundai parking robot, South Korea parking, Five Nights at Freddy's restaurant, MacBook trackpad app, tech news

 

GUEST: Kris Abel | krisabel.com | @realkrisabel

 

Originally aired on 2026-08-11

South Korea has one of the worst parking shortages in the world, and Kris Abel explains the strange, genuinely clever fix Hyundai came up with. A flat robot slides underneath a parked vehicle, lifts it off the ground, and carries it away to store it, no driver required and no wasted space for opening doors.
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Kris also gets into a New Jersey restaurant opening next year built entirely around the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's, complete with nightmarish animatronics and pizza served on the side. He wraps with PurPad, a new MacBook app that hijacks the trackpad's haptics to make it vibrate like a purring cat.
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If you want the weirdest, most interesting corners of tech news without digging for them yourself, this covers it.
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Topics: Hyundai parking robot, South Korea parking, Five Nights at Freddy's restaurant, MacBook trackpad app, tech news
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GUEST: Kris Abel | krisabel.com | @realkrisabel
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Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-08-11

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