<![CDATA[Gizmodo: dallas]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: dallas]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/dallas http://gizmodo.com/tag/dallas <![CDATA[Dallas Cowboys Stadium Continues Streak of Giant Screen Fails]]> After their giant screen blocked a punt, you'd figure the owners of the Dallas Cowboys stadium would be extra careful with their massive displays—but it looks like somebody didn't shut down his computer properly. Whoops! [Thanks, Richard!]

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<![CDATA[NFL to Let the Cowboys Keep Their Punt-Blocking HD Screen In Place]]> Despite the fact that the Cowboys' new 180-foot HD screen has already blocked a punt and the NFL season hasn't even started yet, the league is going to let it stay put. At least this year.

The screen, which Titans punter AJ Trapasso pegged on Friday, hangs 90 feet above the field, which is just low enough to be in the way of seriously high punts. If it gets hit again the ball is ruled dead, the clock is set back and the play is done over. If it happens a lot this season, however, look for the league to force Jerry Jones to spend a couple million bucks to move it up 10 feet. [NFL via Engadget]

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<![CDATA[Punt Hits World's Largest HD Video Screen in Cowboys Stadium]]> During last night's Tennessee-Dallas game, a Titans punter actually hit Dallas's massive 180-foot-long HD screen, creating a bit of a situation: The play isn't reviewable, and there's no provision for a replay. The solution may cost millions of dollars.

Apparently nobody had thought to test if a punted football could reach that high, and when Titans punter AJ Trapasso hit the screen, none of the officials knew quite what to do. It's not a reviewable play, but even if it were, it's not really fair to make a team waste a challenge on interference from the stadium which is entirely not the team's fault.

The solution? The NFL could change the rules so there's a "re-do" option if the screen is hit, which will require another referee to be watching the flight of the ball (none were at the game last night). Or the Cowboys owners could raise the screen to be out of the ball's flight path, but that would cost at least $2 million. It's a tricky situation, and one that'll have to be worked out quickly.

My suggestion: This screen seems like a real danger to the integrity of professional football. If the Cowboys owners will cover the delivery fee, I will be willing to take it off their hands. My email address is over there on the masthead. [ESPN, thanks Robert!]

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<![CDATA[First Football Game In Cowboys Stadium Played On World's Largest HDTV]]> The first football game to *officially* grace the brand spankin' new Dallas Cowboys stadium was in fact rendered for all to see in glorious 1080p high definition.

The game played out on the stadium's 160ft. x 72ft screen—the world's largest 1080p HDTV—as part of a fan appreciation day sponsored by EA and PlayStation. More than 10,000 were expected to attend.

Driving the game as it unfolded high in the air was a humble (in comparison) PlayStation 3. [Kotaku]

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<![CDATA[XERO Project Green Building Concept: Veggie Does Dallas]]> Somewhat like a vegetarian version of the Dragonfly building in Manhattan, the XERO Project is a proposed idea of bringing local agriculture, orchards, gardens and food stalls into the city of Dallas, all under one roof.

Don't put those BBQ ribs down quite yet—Texans can breathe a sigh of relief as this project is still only a concept, which was first submitted to the Vision Dallas design competition looking to make Dallas a greener city. [Archinect]

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<![CDATA[Dallas Cowboys' World's Largest HD Video Screen Debuts]]> The 25,000+ square feet display just debuted today at the Dallas Cowboys stadium. It's the world's largest video screen.

The massive display weighs 600 tons, is 180 feet long and 72 feet tall. It's made of 10.5 million LEDs. When replays are shown, they are automatically made into slow motion. More than ten minutes of direct exposure will render a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader sterile. Every fan featured on the screen will get a million dollars deposited into an account of their choice. You can see it in motion here. [Dallas News]

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<![CDATA[Police Radio Keeps Disrupting Sprinklers, Local Residents Get FCC Involved]]> The police around Cedar Hill, DeSoto and Duncanville Texas have a fancy new communications system that broadcasts their 10-4s and 187s up to 30 miles, which coincidentally enough is screwing up a fancy radio-controlled networked sprinkler system in that general area. Turning off the sprinklers may not sound like it does anything except for making the grass die, but that's exactly what local residents are pissed off about—pissed off enough to get the FCC involved. Too bad for residents that the precedent for FCC decisions on cases where two frequencies overlap is to award use to public safety. If they don't, those same residents would be enjoying that fresh, green lawn when they're burning to death. [Dallas News]

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<![CDATA[Best Buy Vending Machine Haunts Dallas/Fort Worth Airport]]> Forgetting to bring your electronics with you on a flight sucks really, really hard. This is why the DFW airport has allowed Best Buy to put Best Buy Express vending machines inside several terminals, giving travelers a chance to pick up the lost gadgets, chargers or headphones that they would otherwise have to do without. Is it a good deal? Probably not. But think of it as the electronics equivalent of having to buy a pack of Corn Nuts and going to town because you missed lunch. [Dallas News]

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<![CDATA[Dallas Cowboys Stadium Will Have World's Largest Video Screen]]> The Dallas Cowboys will be taking over the world's largest video screen crown from that Japanese race track in 2009. Their HDTV will be a total of 11,200 square feet—actually bigger than when they were talking about this back in 2006—which beats the 8,066 sqft. Tokyo Racetrack one by quite a large margin. If 159 feet by 71 feet is too big to comprehend on a scale usually dominated by inches, imagine how long four busses would be if they're parked end to end. A cheerleader nipslip would turn into Mount Vesuvius. [Dallas News - Thanks Travis!]

Update: Reader Bob tells me that the current largest screen isn't the one in Japan, but one at the Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. Thanks Bob! [Kansas City]

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<![CDATA[Dallas Truancy Court Tracks Lazy Kids Using GPS]]> Being late to school is one thing, waking up at 2 p.m. and rolling in to class is quite another. Apparently, this was the daily routine of Jaime Pacheco, a 15-year-old high school freshman at Bryant Adams High School in Dallas. Naturally, this routine created problems for both his family and the school system, so drastic action was necessary. However, instead of juvenile detention, a truancy court judge sentenced him to enroll in a pilot program that requires truant students to be electronically monitored using a GPS system.

Since Pacheco started wearing the monitor on April 1st, he has had perfect attendance, and many other kids in the program have experienced similar results. Now, school systems across Texas are planning to expand the program and drastically increase the number of kids hooked up with the monitors next year. Yet another example of GPS scaring kids straight. [NYT]

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<![CDATA[DA on Trial For Building Kick Ass Gaming Rig With State Funds]]> A Rockwall County, Dallas district attorney named Ray Sumrow is being tried on charges of forgery, theft and records tampering relating to a computer he built as a backup server for his office. You see, this "backup server" he bought with state money was equipped with two hard drives, seven fans, high-end video and audio cards, WiFi and cables that glow under ultraviolet light (what, no flames paint job?).

The FBI also found incriminating evidence in the form of eBay transactions, emails, and a cheat sheet for a PC game. Although he has not been convicted of the crime yet—things look bleak for Mr Sumrow. Sure, he is an idiot—but you can understand where he is coming from. [Dallas News]

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<![CDATA[Dell Retail Store Peepshow]]> Dell opened up their first retail store in Dallas and here are some of the first shots via the guys over at Gadgetell. Looks pretty nice, but unfortunately they don't sell anything there. Let's hope they at least have a sign at the entrance saying "Warning, Exploding Laptops Present, Proceed with Caution." Hit the linkage for the full-blown racy photo shoot. Unfortunately this photo shoot lacks any kind of beautiful models, unless you consider overweight Dell salesman beautiful. Dell has also opened a store in West Nyack, NY.

Peep Show: Dell's first retail store - Dallas, TX [Gadgetell]

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