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event RECAP july 21-23 wired cafÉ , CA july 21-23 july 21-23 2011 WIRED CafÉ

From July 21-23, 2011, WIRED hosted the 3rd Annual WIRED Café @ Comic-Con. Throughout the weekend, over 3,000 guests received invitation-only access to WIRED’s full-service Café, which provided media preview lounge, gadget lab, cuisine, cocktails, and a host of activities and interactive demos from WIRED partners, including HBO, , History Channel, MGM Casinos, Budweiser Select, and Pringles.

An all-star cast of celebs stopped by to sample the food, drinks, and gear, including Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Jon Favreau, Rose McGowan, Natasha Henstridge, Olivia Munn, John Landis, Adam West, Billy Dee Williams, , Nikki Reed, , and the entire cast of HBO’s .

All of these celebs were captured by the WIRED.com video crew and featured on WIRED.com. Both Access and CNN camped out all day to interview the stars of True Blood.

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wired cafÉ san diego, CA july 21-23 san diego, CA july 21-23 wired cafÉ 5 “I love the WIRED Café, it’s one of my favorite spots at Comic-Con.” —Kellan Lutz

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1 / Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, In Time 2 / Rose McGowan, Conan the Barbarian 3 / Rutina Wesley, True Blood 6 / Eric Balfour, Haven 7 / Aisha Tyler, Archer 8 / Nikki Reed, Twilight 9 / Jon Favreau, Cowboys and Aliens 4 / Skyler Samuels, The Nine Lives of Chloe King 5 / Tony Hale, Alan Tudyk, Adam Brody, and Jake Busey, Good Vibes 10 / Dominic Monaghan, X-Men Origins: Wolverine 11 / Kristin Bauer and Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood 12 / Kevin Smith, 4.3.2.1.

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Adam Brody / Good Vibes Jon Bernthal / The Walking Dead Adam West / Jon Favreau / Cowboys and Aliens Aisha Tyler / Archer Justin Timberlake / In Time Alan Tudyk / Good Vibes Kaj-Erik Eriksen / Alexander Skarsgard / True Blood Karen Gillan / Dr. Who Anders Holm / Katrina Law / Andrew Lincoln / The Walking Dead Keahu Kahuanui / Teen Wolf Andy Serkis / Rise of the Planet of the Apes Kellan Lutz / Twilight Aziz Ansari / 30 Minutes of Less Kevin Alejandro / True Blood 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / Alexa Vega / SpyKids 4 Kevin Smith / 4.3.2.1. Amanda Seyfried / In Time Kristin Bauer / True Blood Arlen Escarpeta / Final Destination 5 Lauren Storm / Flight 29 Down Billy “Dee” Williams / Diary of a Single Mom Leilani Sarelle / For the Love of Money Blair Brown / Fringe Lesley-Ann Brandt / Spartacus / Workaholics Liam McIntyre / Spartacus Brandon Johnson / Shake it Up! Lucas Till / X-Men: First Class Brea Grant / Dexter Lucy Lawless / Spartacus Brendan Wayne / Cowboys and Aliens Matt Smith / Dr. Who Brian Ronalds / Meet the Browns Melissa Elias / Wilfred Bryan Callen / Death Valley Michael Papajohn / For the Love of Money Bryce Johnson / Death Valley Michael Pena / 30 Minutes or Less Charlie Sanders / Death Valley Natasha Henstridge / Secret Circle Chris Browning / Cowboys and Aliens Neil Grayston / Eureka Cindy Morgan / Tron Nick Swardson / 30 Minutes or Less Colin Ferguson / Eureka Nikki Reed / Twilight Colton Haynes / Teen Wolf Nikolaj Coster-Waldau / Game of Thrones CS Lee / Dexter Noah Ringer / Cowboys and Aliens Cynthia Addai-Robinson / Forward Olivia Munn / Perfect Couples David Zayas / Dexter PJ Byrne / Horrible Bosses Dean Ronalds / Meet the Browns Ralph Garman / Family Guy Destin Pfaff / Millionaire Matchmaker Rose McGowan / Conan the Barbarian 5 / 6 / 7 / Dominic Monaghan / X-Men Origins: Wolverine Rutina Wesley / True Blood Dorian Brown / Wilfred Ryan Kwanten / True Blood Dorothy Valentine / Cornered Sarah Wayne Callies / The Walking Dead Doug Jones / Absentia Scooter Hamill / Trapped in Paradise Dylan O’Brien / Teen Wolf Skyler Samuels / The Nine Lives of Chloe King Efren Ramirez / Napoleon Dynamite Steven Yeun / The Walking Dead Elizabeth Harnois / CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Battle / Death Valley Eric Balfour / Haven Thomas Dekker / The Secret Circle / Wilfred Tim Jo / Glory Daze Grant Bowler / True Blood Todd Stashwich / Men of a Certain Age Hakeem Kae-Kazim / True Blood Tom Malloy / The Alphabet Killer Isaac Singleton / Duel of Legends Toni Trucks / Twilight Jake Busey / Good Vibes Tony Hale / Good Vibes Janina Gavankar / True Blood Tyler Hoechlin / Teen Wolf Jason Butler-Harner / Alcatraz Tyler Posey / Teen Wolf / Wilfred Vanessa Olsen / Trapped in Paradise Jeff Davis / Teen Wolf 8 / 9 / 10/

1 / Lucas Till, X-Men: First Class 2 / Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones 3 / Alexa Vega, SpyKids 4 4 / Dorian Brown, Wilfred 5 / Liam McIntyre, Spartacus 6 / Ryan Kwanten and Kevin Alejandro, True Blood 7 / Brandon Johnson, Shake it Up! 8 / Brian Ronalds, Meet the Browns 9 / Colin Ferguson and Neil Grayston, Eureka 10 / Natasha Henstridge, Secret Circle

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1 / Café visitors checked out the hottest summer gadgets paired with LACOSTE threads at the Summer Test Gadget Lab. 2 / Guests had the opportunity to cool down and loosen up at the Fangtasia Bar serving True Blood cocktails. 3 / With makeup artists onsite offering free makeovers, visitors could also glam up for the evening with Tarte for True Blood.

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1 / History Channel’s Top Gear Gadget Lab was seen and experienced by both VIPs, at the WIRED Café, and San Diego consumers, at the highly 2 / Celebrities, bloggers, and café visitors were able to track all the happenings at Comic-con via the Acer laptops in the Acer Media Blogger Lounge. trafficked Horton Plaza mall in downtown San Diego. 3 / Visitors were invited to create their own Pringles Can by designing a custom label, and printing and wrapping the Pringles Can while at the Café.

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4 / A WIRED.com video crew was onsite at the WIRED Café asking celebrity guests questions crowdsourced by the WIRED and Reddit communities. 1 / At the MGM KÀ photo booth, Café visitors were invited to get into character and take a picture with Cirque du Soleil acrobats. 2 / 901 Tequila Each celebrity was featured in a video viewable on WIRED.com courtesy of Bing. 5 / WIRED Café guests were invited to dance in the Gaming Lounge was the exclusive tequila featured throughout the WIRED Café. 3 / Attendees were invited to sample Budweiser Beer and Bud Select in addition to where Ubisoft’s Just Dance 3 was featured. 6 / JackBacks was onsite at the WIRED Café providing complimentary iPhone customization with their interacting with Band of Buds display. Free Bud T-shirts were handed out to guests. signature line of wooden iPhone backs.

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1 / DJ at Showtime event at WIRED Café 2 / Guests at the WIRED Café 3 / Mos Def and guest 4 / Michael C. Hall 5 / William H. Macy & guest 6 / Crowd at the WIRED Café 7 / Emmy Rossum

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24 wired cafÉ san diego, CA july 21-23 san diego, CA july 21-23 wired cafÉ 25 “Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried kicked off Comic-Con in San Diego at the WIRED Café for an interview with WIRED.com…”

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269 Million @BernieSu: Nothing makes a scene like the Press Impressions casts of Dexter and True Blood hanging at the WIRED Café!

NEWS @AvitaniaINTO: Loving the free drinks and “Those in the know can get into the WIRED Café nosh at the #wiredcafe and have free drinks and wifi…” @B_LA_G: Craziest gadgets on display at the #WIREDCafe!

“The WIRED Café offers a full bar, charging @jtyboone: Dr. Who’s Matt Smith singing stations and plenty of gossip from the Main and dancing to Michael Jackson at the Hall all weekend long…” WIRED Café. Amazing!!

@IMDbLive: Alexander Skarsgard is swamped by fans at the #wiredcafe

“[Twilight’s] Nikki Reed was munching on salad and Mexican food with her ear plugs in at the @Spamwasabi: Best party ever! Thank you WIRED Café on the rooftop of the Omni Hotel…” #wiredcafe

sampling of “[True Blood’s] Kevin Alejandro chats at the PRESS in attendance 2011 WIRED Café about the response he’s been getting from the fans at Comic-Con…”

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