“Atari Lamp 3.0 features a custom, handmade lamp shade with box scans from AtariAge. A dead Atari 2600 6-switch is used as the base in this model. This model features an in-line ‘hidden’ light switch in the back of the Atari for easy switching on and off and a nice stack of cartridges up the middle with an improved pipe core to keep the stack complete. The wiring for the lamp itself runs out the RF hole from the Atari so it looks just like an actual Atari would. This took at least three weeks of constant work on my part to get done. This model is Monkey Labs Production Model #1 and its owner is none other than Albert, who was my test marketing group! Al says this lamp will be a part of the AtariAge booth at CGE and I am very, very proud to have it displayed there.” w/ photos

“Despite its success the website, currently the 42nd most popular in the world, is still run from Mr Needham’s anonymous suburban home in Stoke Gifford, Bristol… His film obsession peaked in the mid 1990s when he was watching more than 1,000 films a year. He would record the credits at the end of a film and then note down every detail. A chance email encounter in 1989 with a film fan in California prompted him to publish his own personal database online. The list was published once a month and fellow fans could log on and download it to their own computers. The first set of software was published in October 1990 and IMDb was born. With the emergence of the web the site evolved and became interactive but it was managed by a group of 20 volunteers. ”The growth we were getting on the site when we first launched was incredible, we were literally doubling the number of users every month.” IMDb became a company in 1996 and the 20 volunteers who helped run the site were all given shares. The first time all 20 met up in the same room was the day the papers were signed.” w/ photo