Tag: NASCAR

For now, fans of the Dallas Cowboys can brag that their team's stadium boasts the world's largest HD video screen. Enjoy it while you can, Cowboys fans. According to DVICE, the Charlotte Motor Speedway will unveil, in April 2011, a 200-foot-by-80-foot Panasonic HD screen that will supplant the Cowboys' screen as the world's largest. The monster screen will cover an area of 16,000 square feet, ...

E3 is in full swing, and like the busy gaming bees we are, we darted around the Los Angeles Convention Center, eavesdropping on conversations, dropping in on demos and devouring any info we can get our sweaty palms on. Here are some juicy tidbits to tide you over til the show opens again -- or when your favorite game hits stores. ...

Some are calling NASA's failed launch of a pair of telescopes using a balloon a "debacle" and "calamitous," but we think these outlets aren't giving the space agency the credit it deserves. These are rocket scientists after all. Perhaps, and bear with us here, turning millions of dollars in research equipment into an ad hoc wrecking ball was actually a calculated marketing ploy to capture the ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... In a visit to Rome, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (one of Japan's few Roman Catholics) stopped by the Vatican and gave the Pope a Sony HDR-XR500V HandyCam. That should help out with the Pontiff's YouTube channel. [From: CNet] According to a new study from Nielsen Online, kids aged two to 11 make up 9.5-percent of Internet ...

While Washington scrambles and searches for answers, the automotive industry remains in shambles. So far, nothing has worked. And by 'nothing,' we mean 'throwing wads of cash at the problem.' So why not take a creative approach? That's exactly what one talented illustrator has done. While Core 77 user lunchbreath's suggestions to the Motor City might not be practical, they're loads of fun to ...

Computerized GPs voices too dispassionate for you? K.I.T.T. too snarky? Mr. T always falling asleep? Maybe what you need is a good 'ol boy GPS, something with a hint of southern drawl and Wrangler Jeans style. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the man for the job, providing his voice to a special edition Rightway Spotter GPS from Transplant and ALK Technologies. He'll give you distances, speak some street ...

We've heard it said that you can't trust everything you read on the Internet, and that's especially true on April 1st. In the last few years, the Web has taken April Fool's Day to new heights, with everybody from Qualcomm to Google, from Cash4Gold to The Guardian, getting in on the mischief. Although most Web pranks are regarded as harmless fun, the wheel-mag Car and Driver backfired yesterday ...