In honor of St-Paddy’s day, Geeks are Sexy reader Jamie has sent us a video of his awesome bartending robot named… are you ready for this? BaR2D2!
BaR2D2 is a mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, computerized drink mixing, and sound activated neon lighting. The robot is drivable so you can take the party on the road! It was garage-built in about 8 months.
[BaR2D2]
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Blendtech spokesgeek Tom Dickson is back with a new “Will it Blend” video folks, and this time, he’s shoving a brand new iPad 2 inside one of his company’s famous blender. Check it out:
[Source: Dorkly]
You think you know a thing and that you can wrap your mind around it, then someone (like the folks at Our Amazing Planet) lay an infographic on you. Mind = blown.
Listen to this NYC-based musical saw player as she performs the original Star Trek theme inside the subway.
Don’t you just love that look of utter cluelessness some of the people listening to her have?
[Via Neatorama]
Netflix is dominating the online movie market in the US, and now it’s considering getting into original programming.
It was already known that from a sheer data use perspective, Netflix was having a major impact on data flow going through the web. It’s estimated to make up 20% of downstream traffic in the US at peak time, and when the streaming service launched in Canada, it had overtaken YouTube in data use within a matter of days.
That certainly suggested it would be doing extremely well in the paid video market, and now there are figures to back that theory up. A survey by NPD Group claims 61% of legal streaming or downloaded movies come via Netflix. To put that into an even clearer context, the number two spot is taken by Comcast at just eight percent.
According to the survey, customers favor the ease of use and low prices of Netflix even over services such as iTunes that have a much better selection of new releases.
It looks as if Netflix is looking for another selling point: exclusive and original content. According to Deadline.com, the company has beaten several cable companies to win a bidding war for a US remake of British political drama House of Cards (pictured). The series will be directed by The Social Network’s David Fincher and star Kevin Spacey.
Reportedly the deal is for a total of 26 episodes, which is quite the liberal “remake” given the original was a little under four hours long, followed by two sequels of 3hrs 20mins apiece. The total cost to Netflix, including the programming fees and the promotion is said to be more than $100 million. In other words, this isn’t the type of low-budget web video that you see in TV shows’ “bonus content”, but rather a full-fledged production with an HBO-style budget.
Deadline notes that it’s not just a case of it being unusual for an online firm to bid for a TV production, but it’s rare that any broadcaster would commit to such a lengthy run for a new show. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal points out Netflix already has more subscribers than Showtime and has about 70% of the potential audience of HBO.
The deal looks to be for online broadcast only, with the producers retaining the ability to sell later rights to DVD sales or reruns on television.
If Hoban “Wash” Washburne isn’t a sexy geek, I invite you all to tell me who is. Serenity’s pilot and the voice of Sonny in I, Robot is 40 years old today and looking good.
Most of us know Tudyk from Firefly, in which he starred with another favorite geek, playing the wise-cracking pilot, Wash. The clip below is one of my favorite Wash scenes, featuring one of his funniest lines: “Curse your sudden-but-inevitable betrayal!”
Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, grew up in Plano, and attended the Juilliard conservatory. He was voted Most Likely to Succeed at Lon Morris Jr College.
??Tudky is hilarious in real life, often landing comedic roles, like Gerhardt in 28 Days and Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
This recut trailer focuses on Tudyk’s role, almost lending the ridiculous film an air of credible sensitivity. (Almost.)
(Also, mildly strong language at 1:24, unless your boss is a fan of homophobic slurs.)
He also gets some love from the webcomic set in the strip below, originally featured on hijinksensue.com.
Happy birthday, Alan Wray Tudyk, from all of your fans here at [GAS].
What’s your favorite Tudyk role? Let us know in the comments! In closing, I give you the Look at My Package Dance. (embedding was disabled on the video, so you guys will have to click on the link to see it.)
Check out this Star Trek fan who was caught on film at a convention shaking his booty to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison. Hey, the dude even managed to amaze that girl standing in the audience!
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As a father to a little girl that’s about the right age for Disney Princesses, I’ve been doing my best to keep her interested in things like dinosaurs, Toy Story, and Sesame Street instead. But if the Princesses were as cool as the women in the upcoming Suckerpunch, maybe I wouldn’t mind if my daughter had a few dolls around the house.
Thankfully, someone had the foresight to cut together clips from the various Princess movies to coincide with the audio from the latest Suckerpunch trailer. And it is awesome!
Check it out.
Tags: disney princesses, mash-up, online videos, suckerpunch, youtube