REMINDER/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road
What: The Best Buy Fun Zone, a mobile marketing and entertainment destination, is available for media tours. The traveling Fun Zone features: -- The latest technology offered at Best Buy stores, including products that create a state-of-the-art bedroom, kitchen and high-definition home theater. -- An interactive gaming area with video game pods featuring the latest video game systems, and egg chair digital music pods complete with interactive video screens -- An expandable stage for events. The Fun Zone creates the environment of a fully networked home within the interior of the 53-foot trailer. A series of 14 monitors show the superior picture quality and clarity of flat-panel LCD and plasma TV, using video streamed through an advanced audio/video/Internet network. The Fun Zone also features a touch-panel remote system that controls all of the trailer's audio, video, Internet and lighting devices. Other product highlights include a prototype refrigerator from Whirlpool, a 50-inch wide-screen plasma TV from Pioneer, Alienware computers and a satellite radio system from XM Satellite Radio. People who visit Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights can tour the Fun Zone to experience all of the technology first-hand and discover new ways to integrate the products into their lives, helping to make their time more fun and productive. Where: Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights Downtown Pontiac, Mich. When: Friday, June 28 - 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 29 - 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, June 30 - 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome Call contact to arrange interviews
About Best Buy Co., Inc.
Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. is North America's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial web sites under the names: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca); Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,900 retail stores in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.