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Radiopost TS401 emerging from shadows
Radiopost has been teasing their TS401 radio for a little while now in the print rags and other places. Now they’ve sent out the official PR on it. The TS401 is a 4 channel, 2.4 GHz radio built on a proprietary chipset. One of it’s cooler features is a large, full color screen that swivels down for storage. It also [...]
- 4/5/2011
- 4:29 pm
- New Products
- By: Jeff
Trinidad wheels for Ten-SCTE
Remember in our Losi Ten-SCTE review when Cubby said that the truck’s wheel offset is incompatible with every aftermarket wheel on the market? Kind of a kick to the nuts right? But fear not as the aftermarket always adapts and overcomes. DE Racing was among the first to market with a Ten-SCTE compatible wheel. Their popular Trinidad design offers a [...]
Kershaw Designs Spring Cleaning
Kershaw Designs has collected too much stuff over the last couple years and they’re tired of tripping over it every time they walk in the door. Well their frustration is your gain, they’ve taken a ton of that stuff and started putting it up on eBay to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Right now, at this very [...]
R/C Around the Web – I admit it, I’m a nerd… edition.
Photo of the Week:by Csicsó Milestone: The Radio Control Show reaches episode 100, has many big guests, such as Dennis Anderson of Grave Digger fame, Tanner Foust of Top Gear and other fame, and Ken Block of shoe making fame. Nerd stuff: Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 were released in the past couple weeks. Keeping your browser updated to the most [...]
Axial branching out from crawlers?
Apparently Axial is having a little trouble corking the leak in their company. First their Wraith rock racer was leaked a month and a half before it’s scheduled announcement and now this image of what appears to be an Axial designed drifter just showed up in our inbox from a “spy” in the company. The spy couldn’t provide any info [...]
Hi Torque Publications, Inc. buys Big Squid RC.com
Click to embiggen. Hi Torque Publications, Inc. is happy to announce it’s recent acquisition of Big Squid RC.com and all subsidiary domains, trademarks, and content. Hi Torque’s president & CEO had this to say about the buyout “We at Hi Torque are very happy to be bringing on board such a recognizable entity, we look forward to continuing to develop the Big [...]
Axial Wraith Teaser Video
Axial just posted up a teaser of their new rock racer, the Wraith, which is still pending an official announcement. There’s not anything new in this video, but it sure does look cool. Check out the video after the break, then hit up Axial’s website to patiently await the official announcement, coming in a couple weeks.
March Bash-ness Ultimate Basher
A big and hearty Congratulations to HPI Racing and the Savage Flux HP, The Ultimate Basher! Nine days ago we started March Bash-ness with 16 trucks. After all of you guys cast nearly 6,000 votes (most of which were legitimate!) over that time, 15 trucks have been sent home and we now have a winner. The Ultimate Basher as decided [...]
Cute wittle, tiny wheels for a cute wittle, tiny truck
LD Racing Products has some great looking new wheels for fans of The Tiniest Crawler of All, the Losi Micro Crawler. The new 8Trax wheels are available in nice and heavy aluminum for those times when you need the weight, or lighter, black Delrin for times when you don’t. They are a great looking wheel, if I ever get around [...]
- 3/30/2011
- 10:10 pm
- Losi
New Products - By: Jeff
March Bash-ness – Final Round Voting and Giveaway Entry
Click to embiggen [Update: Polls and comments are closed! Thanks for voting and hit up the front page tomorrow for the official crowning of The Ultimate Bashing Truck, then check back on Friday for the announcement of the giveaway winner and what he or she has won!] [Update from Brian: I have to admit the excitement of the final March-Bashness round [...]
March Bash-ness – Round 3 Voting
click to embiggen [Update 2: Voting for Round 3 has now closed, click here for the Final Round and Giveaway entry!] [Update: Due to a d-bag spamming our poll, I had to go back and edit all 180 of his/her cast votes from the polls. That user has been warned, if it happens again, the ban will be permanent.] Round 2 of March [...]
R/C Around the Web - Busy week means something has to suffer…
Photo of the Week:by Steven Velasco What a week it’s been, between the 36 hour turn-&-burn of RCX last weekend, to our hugely successful March Bash-ness Event, things around here have just been out of control. And they’re continuing into next week as we wrap up March Bash-ness and give away another vehicle. Is it going to be an HPI or [...]
March Bash-ness – Round 2 Voting
Click to embiggen [Update: Voting for Round 2 has now closed. Round 3 voting is open!] March Bash-ness round one is done, the winners have moved on and the losers have gone home. To recap the first round of voting, the young and spry Savage Flux handily trounced the great-grandfather of monster trucks, the Clod Buster. The Stampede 4×4 VXL [...]
Charge your batteries in less than 10 seconds…?
(a) Cross-sectional SEM image of an MnO2 cathode. (b) Lithiated MnO2 cathode. Zhang et al. Stolen from Green Car Congress. Ever thought you’d see the day when you could charge your batteries in less than 10 seconds? It may be coming with recent breakthroughs in nano-technology. A group of researchers lead by Paul Braun, professor of materials science and engineering, at [...]
Some industry heavy-weights starting new company…
Model Retailer magazine has just published a report stating that former Horizon Hobby president and CEO, Mike Gillette, has teamed up with industry legend Gil Losi Jr., and former Team Associated engineer Jason Corl to launch a new company called Firelands Group. They intend to enter the market with cars and trucks of their own under the Helion brand [...]
