It’s day 6 of our 7-day auction to raise funds for two of our favorite causes, Science Club for Girls and Technology Underwriting Greater Good. So hurry to eBay, because as of this writing you’ve only got about 20 hours left to bid on the amazing Lord of the Rings Online Collector’s Edition boxed set, autographed by the game’s developers at Westwood, MA-based Turbine.
I explained the whole back story to the auction last week. In a nutshell, Turbine gave Xconomy the autographed set back in July as a memento of our visit, and we decided (with Turbine’s blessing) to auction it off and donate the proceeds.
Lord of the Rings Online is Turbine’s award-winning massively multiplayer game world based on the famous J.R.R. Tolkien novels. The boxed set includes two Windows program discs, a Music & Art Collection bound volume including “The Music of Mines of Moria” soundtrack CD, a premium cloth map of the game world, a Middle Earth poster, the Collector’s Edition Starter Guide manual, a product key and three free 14-day buddy keys, a quick reference card, and—perhaps coolest of all—a gold-plated replica of the One Ring (evil powers not included).
Bid now—click here to visit the auction page. To whet your appetite, here are a few pictures of the set and its contents:
Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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