Last Friday evening saw the V1 crew pull together the official "Amazing Machines" Launch Party for the amazing machine that is the new VolumeOne.org (the website you're on right now!). Roughly 250 invited guests stopped by the Volume One World Headquarters to enjoy free food (catered by Haymarket Grill, Stones Throw, Galloway Grill, and Dessert First), free drinks (thanks in part to General Beer Northwest and Stuart Sandler), and have fun with a variety of examples of other "amazing machines." These gadgets included the Lazy Drinker, a computerized machine that custom pours roughly 200 different drinks right before your eyes, and an Oxygen Bar, a machine that gets you "high" on a variety of flavored oxygens. Not only that, but partygoers could have their photo taken with an actual "sophisticated robot machine" (otherwise called a dude in a cardboard robot costume) while watching retro robot movies projected on one wall of the office. Yes, good times were certainly had.

• • Check out some photos of the party, including a handful of candid "Robo-Photos."
• • And check out the official, illustrated invitation.

BIG THANKS go to the various people and business that helped us pull it together through their services and expertise, some of which were named above. Additional thanks go to: Erik Christensen (invite illustration), Rob Mattison (old robot movies), Andrew Pernsteiner (oxygen bar), James Bartelt (the robot), Shannon Paulus (robot face), and Jesse Johnson (the robo-photographer).