Lexus, and its all-new 2013 GS sport sedan, has teamed up with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Tori Praver to do something that no other duo has attempted before. Lexus has created an actual race track inspired by the curves of Tori’s body. It is called the Tori 500.

Sure, Tori’s curves will inspire any warm-blooded man, but to construct an actual racetrack from them? Check out the video and pics below to see how the process played out. We’ve also thrown in some additional Tori goodies for your viewing pleasure.

In the video you’ll see our friend Scott Pruett competing with stunt driver Greg Tracy in the all-new 2013 Lexus GS on the TORI 500 track. The grand prize was a victory lap with the lovely Tori in the passenger seat.

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To celebrate Movies On Demand and their “Winning Movie Moments” contest, the Zoo is giving away ONE Movies On Demand Movie-Watchers prize Pack, containing a set of headphones, a Snuggie and other movie-watching items, courtesy of MOD, to ONE lucky winner.

“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” said Don Corleone in the classic 1972 film “The Godfather.” Now, national on demand distributor iN DEMAND, in support of the industry’s Movies On Demand® campaign currently in the marketplace, is giving movie fans an offer they won’t want to refuse – several ways to win during Awards Season without having to star in a nominated film! Read the rest of this entry »

Bruce and I have received quite a few perks from running this site over the years, but nothing has even come close to what we were treated to during this past Super Bowl weekend. Imagine being able to test-drive one of the top names in luxury vehicles, on a closed track, with a professional race car driver… in Las Vegas.

The happening was the 2013 Lexus GS Event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and it was the ultimate treat. We spent the day beating the hell out different models of the ’13 GS… and they kept taking whatever we dished out and then asked for more. Well, it was the professional drivers assisting us that were urging us to push the vehicles. Its not every day you hear someone tell you to hit the corners harder in a Lexus. Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate Lexus’ very first Super Bowl commercial, as seen below, and the sheer awesomeness of the 2013 Lexus GS, the Zoo is giving away ONE Lexus Enform Prize Pack, featuring a 1-year subscription to Pandora One and 2 movie tickets per month from MovieTickets.com.

The prize pack is inspired by Lexus Enform – a safety, navigation, entertainment and communication system that includes apps from partners like Pandora, MovieTickets.com and OpenTable.

Lexus Enform extends the capabilities of your vehicle’s available Navigation System through eDestination and Destination Assist. eDestination allows you to plan trips from home using an exclusive online search tool—or via your mobile phone with the Lexus Enform Mobile app. Destination Assist provides live navigation assistance from the 24-hour Lexus Enform response center. Both features seamlessly transfer destinations to your vehicle’s Navigation System. Planning trips has never been so fast, easy and convenient.

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To celebrate the syndication of the hit game show Cash Cab, and it now being aired 5 days a week, the Zoo is giving away a prize pack of a $50 Visa Cash Card and a Cash Cab Board Game to ONE luck Grand Prize Winner and TWO Board Games to TWO runners up.

The funniest game show on TV, Cash Cab combines elements of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Family Feud and Candid Camera as taxi driver/comedian Ben Bailey picks up unsuspecting people hailing a cab and gives them a chance to win thousands. Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate AXE Hair’s presence at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Zoo is giving away TWO AXE Hair Sundance Survival Packs, courtesy of AXE Hair, to TWO lucky winners. The Survival Pack consists of the same gifts that AXE will be handing out to the celebrities in the AXE Hair Media Lounge & Groom Room at Sundace and includes: “Touchscreen” Gloves (gloves that allow you to use your touchscreen phone while wearing them), Hand warmers, Full set of AXE Hair styling products, AXE Hair Branded Lip Balm, AXE Hair Branded Mints.

The AXE Hair Groom Room & Media Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival is the go-to-place for celebs to get their hair touched up before press junkets and screenings. AXE Hair Styling Stations will be led by men’s celebrity hair stylist and grooming expert Joey Nieves, who will be touching-up guys’ and girls’ hair and giving them the camera-ready look they love. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been going full tilt the past couple of days. Year-end here at TMR is no joke. We have to compile out year-end best-of lists, and this is when we plan our strategies for next year. On top of all this confusion I have to buy gifts for 5 co-workers, 3 kids, a wife and multiple extended family members.

After circling the mall parking lot 6 times and getting flipped off by a Betty White look alike I figured it was time to leave the mall. I downloaded Groupon Now! on my Droid and planed my next move. Read the rest of this entry »

The Yamaha PDX-11 is an ultra-portable iDevice amplifier that is the perfect gift for that super hard to buy for person on your list. The PDX-11 allows you to slide your iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 into it’s docking station. Once connected get ready for mind blowing audio and bass response to be derived from the 4” cone woofer and 1-3/8” tweeter.

Yamaha designed the octagon-shaped body to deliver stability, toughness and style. Choose from four strong colors – white, dark blue, green and black – each accented by a color-matched, perforated steel grille. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced on the Kinect for Windows blog that a PC specific version of the Kinect motion sensor hardware will be released this coming Spring.

The PC version will be more advanced that the older Xbox 360 version. Most importantly, the PC Kinect will have a “near mode”, which will allow the device to track objects as close as 50cm away, “with graceful degradation down to 40 centimeters,” which is in stark contrast to the original Kinect’s 1.8m requirement. Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate the awesomeness of the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows, the Zoo is giving away THREE Motorcycle Movie Bundles, featuring Torque, Easy Rider, and The Wild One, courtesy of Progressive International Motorcycle Shows, to THREE lucky winners.

Discover your inner artist this year at the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows! From the second you pass through the Welcome Entrance, you embark upon an adventure through the world of motorcycles. You’ll become an artist for a day when you create your own motorcycle design at our exclusive Kawasaki Design-A-Bike, featuring a brand new digital painting technology available only at the Motorcycle Shows. Read the rest of this entry »

We usually don’t post items like this, but we were chuckling it up quite a bit at TMR Headquarters these past few days checking out a preview of an upcoming AXE advertising campaign that will be launching in the near future.

AXE Products have rolled out some creative and funny advertising in the past, but this latest commercial takes the cake. My hat goes off to these guys in the commercial… physical comedy at its finest!

Just take a look for yourself. If you can get through this without at least a smirk, then I don’t know what the hell you’re doing on this site: Read the rest of this entry »

HBO has officially announced their major expansion of the Xbox 360′s marketplace with on-demand and live streaming television channels. The Xbox Live Dashboard Fall Update will include HBO, Bravo, Crackle, Epix, Syfy, Vevo, UFC, YouTube, and The Today Show.

Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, proclaimed, “Today we are happy to announce plans to roll out the next generation of TV entertainment on Xbox LIVE. We have nearly 40 world class TV and entertainment providers coming to Xbox LIVE including: Bravo, Comcast, HBO GO, Verizon FiOS and Syfy in the U.S.; BBC TV and radio in the U.K.; Telefónica in Spain; Rogers On Demand in Canada; Televisa in Mexico; ZDF in Germany; and MediaSet in Italy, that will begin rolling out to consoles in more than 20 countries this holiday.” Read the rest of this entry »

Computer hardware pioneer and general Apple Computer demi-god Steve Jobs has passed away at the young age of 56. Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer since 2004.

Jobs developed his first computer, the Apple I, in his parents’ garage in 1976, which was so primitive that it lacked a keyboard and display, and customers had to assemble it themselves, despite the over $600 price tag. Next year’s Apple ][ was produced and it was a huge success, launching Jobs’ career. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple Inc has released a statement say their co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday. He was 56. Apple issued this brief statement.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the company said in a brief statement. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.” Read the rest of this entry »

A typical linear power strip can be a pain if you need to plug in multiple transformer plugs. The odds are that you won’t even be able to use one or two of the sockets in the strip due to a few fat transformers. There have been quite a few “solutions” to that problem, but most of them are either ridiculously expensive or defeat the purpose of the power strip. Accell appears to have combined an effective surge protector with a low price point in their “PowerSquid”.

The Accell PowerSquid surge protector and power conditioner can accommodate five plugs, even transformer plugs (even five separate transformer plugs), with ease. It isn’t just a gimmicky product with a cool name either, the PowerSquid will provide you with up to 1080 Joules of surge protection along with the elimination of static due to “dirt” power. It can be used in virtually any type of electrical set-up from your computer desk to your home entertainment system to your wood shop.

You can implement the PowerSquid in a number of ways. It can just lay flat on a surface, or you can mount it to a wall, floor or any surface. The five sockets are flexible so it can work with almost any kind of wiring set up you have. It can be used anywhere, but where the PowerSquid will really shine is in your garage or shop. I have been using one in mine for months now. Running smoothly on it is a chest freezer, a beer fridge, and several chargers for the battery packs of various power tools. Oh, and a radio too. The flexible “tentacles” allow each socket to bend in any direction it gets pulled while the rest stay put… so moving around with a power tool won’t yank your entire power strip off the wall or work bench.

The PowerSquid can be found in almost any retail outlet where power strips or surge protectors are sold. You’ll find it for under $35 in most cases, priced far below any of the “brand name” surge protectors. If you are using a power strip in your garage or shop, then you’ll want to replace it with the PowerSquid… now.

For more info on the PowerSquid, check out AccellCables.com

The NFL and Verizon are bringing fans back to football no matter where they are with more live games, live NFL Network, news and information with NFL Mobile only from Verizon, powered by the nation’s fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G network.

New this year, NFL Mobile will offer live streaming of ESPN’s Monday Night Football (MNF) package starting on Monday, Sept. 12 with the kickoff double header featuring the New England Patriots visiting the Miami Dolphins followed by the Oakland Raiders visiting the Denver Broncos. The 17 MNF games are in addition to the live stream of NBC’s 18-game Sunday Night Football package, NFL Network’s eight-game Thursday Night Football slate and NFL RedZone, which delivers every touchdown from every game on Sunday afternoons. NFL Mobile delivers coverage of every NFL regular season game, and fans can also use NFL Mobile to keep up with the action by watching NFL Network 24/7 throughout the entire season. Read the rest of this entry »