Sony Europe has launched a webseries apparently intended to celebrate geek culture along with Sony gadgets. Because, you know, geeks like gadgets. They also can’t talk to girls, and probably wear pocket protectors.
So if this is what we know about geeks, and we also know about girls, I wonder what geeky girls are like. Pink, sparkly pocket protectors?
After much waiting and anticipation, the first episode of Felicia Day’s new webseries has hit YouTube! Dragon Age: Redemption is based upon the popular game series from Bioware, though seems to be all Felicia – this “Knights of Good production” gives her created by, written by, and starring credits. Watch below!
My verdict? Awesome. It clearly has some high production value, and I’m geeked that Doug Jones (who you may have also seen recently in “The Guild”!) is in the cast. I’m excited to see where the series goes, and Felicia was clearly born to be an elf. There will be five more episodes in the series.
The Dragon Age 2: Mark of the Assassin downloadable content is available now as well, as a tie-in to the series.
The oldest known working car in the world has sold for $4.6 million at an auction in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The vehicle was made in 1884 and runs on steam.
The car was actually made a year before the first experimental design of what we’d now recognize as a petrol engine, which featured in cars built by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler.
Instead this French vehicle, officially titled De Dion-Bouton et Trepardouz, runs on steam produced by burning wood, coal or even paper. It takes around 30 to 45 minutes to fire up, but can then travel at peaks of 38 miles per hour. However, after around 20 miles you’ll need to fill up — not on gas, but on water.
It’s arguably the design rather than the propulsion technology that made the vehicle so effective. The four-wheel set-up with the engine at the front and seats at the back solved the problem of accommodating a small-but-powerful engine without the vehicle either exploding or tipping over. Aside from the disparity in size between the larger front wheels (which steer) and the smaller back wheels (which drive), it’s effectively the same basic design used for virtually all cars today.
The car, nicknamed La Marquise, was the only vehicle entered in what was billed as the first formal motor car race, averaging 16 mph on a Paris-Versailles-Paris route. The following year it saw off a challenger and upped its average speed to 18 mph. After being restored in 1987, the car completed four runs in the annual London-Brighton race, most recently in 1996.
It’s been sold several times, the last being in 2008 for around $3.5 million. Auctioneers had expected it to go for considerably less than that this time round, but an anonymous bidder took the car for $4.6 million.
Ladies and gentlegeeks, behold, Marvel and Paramount have just released the first official movie trailer for the Joss Whedon-directed Avengers movie, and I hope, by Vectron’s kindly claws, that Joss is going to turn this one into the best movie of the series.
[Youtube]
Yep geeks, Google Earth has recently passed the one billion downloads mark, so to celebrate, Google has just released this video. I know I’ve downloaded the software at least 20 times in the past few years, so considering this, evaluating the number of real users using the product would be kind of difficult.
Wow, that was one of the first thing I’ve ever heard that was both painful and awesome at the same time! :)
Music by John Williams. Lyrics by Brett Domino.
[Source: Awkward Zombie]