And having done so, we're pleased to announce that Raven does, in fact, live up to the hype. A smart, capable girl who loves Star Trek, World of Warcraft, and, of course, making porn, she's a geek's dream. Add to that the fact that she's got a head for business, and runs not one, but two sites all on her own, and well—it should be easy to see why we're totally smitten. Looking to fall in love yourself? Click through the gallery to read our interview with Raven.

Fleshbot: So just to get started, can you tell me a little bit about yourself? Where are you from, how long have you been doing adult, how did you get into adult?
Raven Alexis: I'm originally from the Northwest and I've been living in Las Vegas for about three years now. I've done a lot of online work; I've done some dvd work as well and I have my own websites that I started and I work really hard on those and obviously now I'm with DP, so that's kind of me in a nutshell.

What made you decide to start your own site?
I've always kind of wanted to have my own website, to start my own business, be my own boss. And it just seemed like the web is where everything is right now.

For your own website, how much of the business end did you do? Were you also doing any technical stuff?
I own and operate them. I do have two webmasters that help me operate them, but I can do pretty much everything just in case someone can't do something. So I edit occasionally, I update the sites occasionally....I'm my own production company, so I try to be as hands on as possible and involve myself in everything a little bit.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

What's the difference between ravenalexis.com and ravensplayhouse.com?
Raven's Playhouse is my first site and it's exclusively solo...solo masturbation, solo stuff. It's much more girl next door, sweet girl stuff. Raven Alex has my boy-girl, girl-girl. It's got kind of a collection of stuff on it. It has a backstage pass area on it where they can actually just kind of see see me in regular life doing regular life things.

How long have you been doing hardcore?
I have been doing it...I want to say for a year and a half now.

And what made you decide to start doing hardcore? Was it something you planned all along?
Yeah, it's definitely something I planned. I wanted to get a lot of solo glamour work under my belt. I wanted to make sure it was the right time and everything. And I've done it exclusively on my own site, on Raven Alexis, so all along I've been wanting to go to the next level. And Digital Playground has definitely been in my sights. I just think they're an amazing company and now I finally get the opportunity to work with them.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

Do you consider yourself a geek? Is that how you self identify?
Definitely, yeah. I'm proud of it.

So what's the geekiest thing about you?
Um, well, there's a lot of geeky things. I play a lot of computer games, I play a lot of Xbox, I go to Comic-Con every year. I have a huge Star Trek thing, I go to Star Trek conventions.... Um yeah I'm very into gadgets, into sci-fi, just not really your typical girl, I guess.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

In terms of gadgets, what are your favorite gadgets?
My iPhone definitely is my favorite. I don't go anywhere without that. My computer. I have several. I have my gaming machines and then I have my laptop.

What kinds of computers do you have?
I have one Mac that I do all my website stuff on, then I have actually my two PCs that I built out myself. They're water cooled; they've got all the latest on them.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

Are you mainly into Star Trek? Are there other sci-fi things you like?
I like Star Trek, it's probably my favorite. Battlestar Galactica is probably my second favorite. I do watch Star Wars. I'm not as into them, but I think I'm more of a trekkie than a Star Wars person, but I like them all and I'll give anything a chance. But I think Star Trek is my favorite and BSG is my second.

New BSG or old BSG?
I would have to say old. I watch the new stuff but it doesn't do as much for me.

And which breed of Star Trek?
The Next Generation.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

I also heard you play World of Warcraft.
Yes, I do.

Did you know there's a porn star guild in World of Warcraft?
I did not know that, no...If there is such a thing I would definitely be interested.

Have you run into any issues with your account? Mia Rose, one of the pornstars who plays World of Warcraft actually had her account banned because of being a pornstar.
No I haven't. I don't really discuss it. You know, I've played it for, gosh, five, six years now. I don't really discuss what I do. I don't you know let it be known who I am or anything like that. Yeah, I haven't run into any problems with that.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

Have you shot any scenes for Digital Playground yet?
Yes, I have. I actually just finished doing something for them that's going to be released hopefully just right in time for the AVNs. We're just focusing on filming as much as we can.

Do you know what it's going to be called or is it still untitled?
I don't. I think they kind of keep those things untitled until the last second, you know?

Can you talk about who did you get to work with?
Oh, I can't actually say who I worked with but it was a great team and they were two of the best performers in the industry so it's not going to disappoint for sure.

Oh, two? Did you do two separate scenes?
It was one scene.

Oh, okay. Oh my goodness. Are you planning on working with males, females, both?
Both, all, you know, as much as I can get. I love sex and I love men and women equally.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

Are there things you haven't done on camera yet that you are looking forward to doing?
I always I want to do new stuff all the time....I'm always looking to kind of push the envelope and do as much crazy kinky fun stuff as possible.

What would you say is your favorite fetish?
Um, gosh. I like BDSM, I like I have a kind of strange mask fetish, kind of like the "Eyes Wide Shut" thing. I have a lot of different kinks that I enjoy, but BDSM is probably the top contender.

Do you consider yourself a top or a bottom?
A top.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

You live in Las Vegas, right?
Yes, I do.

So if I were to come to Las Vegas, what would be something I would absolutely have to do?
Oh gosh. I think probably the most important thing here in Vegas is the old strip, the Fremont Street experience. I have a fascination with all things classic and retro, so it's pretty cool to see the old classic Vegas like you see in all the movies.

Are there things you see as a local that tourists don't normally see?
I think everybody thinks that vegas is crazy crazy 24/7, you know? But there's a huge outdoors scene, = hiking and ski clubs and things like that. There's a huge suburban feel to it as well. So, I think people tend to just see the strip and don't realize how much it has to offer for actually like living here and doing other stuff.

Image of Raven Alexis courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

Lest you thought you were watching yet another reason for the mothballing of Guantanamo Bay, the mass ass-presentation of (from left) Ava Rose, Bobbi Starr, Bree Olson, Trinity Post, and Mika Tan to the cruel whips of Nina Hartley and Claire Adams that led this story was in honor of the release of "O2: The Surrender of O."

Here Adams scandalizes the proper Hartley with some ribaldry.

At the Webmaster Access West convention, an annual get-together of Internet nerds who happen to own the porn industry, The Internet's Ashley Steele poses with two eskimo girls from the affiliate program Flashcash. Who cares if she can't see Russia from her house?

Then Bobbi Starr returned at Hollywood's Golden Apple Comics to launch Nerdcore's 2009 calendar (she's Miss November). As you can see, here she is attempting to fist the Silver Surfer.

Finally, we caught geektrix extraordinaire Justine Joli trying to leave the city of Los Angeles. "If you try to keep me," she did not say, "you never really had me."

The basic concept behind Fyre TV is that the second you hook up the little black box, your porn collection becomes an afterthought. It gives you online access to thousands of movies and scenes that are streamed directly to your TV over the internet. No hard drives or discs needed.

You can scroll through this huge library of smut, by title, genre (mature, anal, lesbian, etc.) or studio, or you can search for your favorite stars and watch all their scenes at once.

You can watch scene-by-scene or entire movies and even though it's streaming video, you can pause, rewind and fast forward like you're watching an actual DVD. If you've never used an IPTV box before, the picture quality is surprising good for something that only exists on your modem wires.

Fyre TV is still in beta testing, so many of the features that are envisioned for the future have yet to be enabled. They plan to charge customers in several different ways depending on their usage—a la carte, per minute, or with unlimited monthly subscriptions. They've already made deals with several big studios to make their collections available through the service and are adding more on a regular basis.

Perhaps the best part of this service is that the box itself is small and black with no labels or markings of any kind and fits right in on any entertainment center. (It's even more innocuous than it looks in the picture above.) Unlike your complete collection of "Barely Legal" discs, it can sit right out in the open and—even when Grandma comes for a visit—no one has to be the wiser. It can also be password protected.

The future of true internet television is a long way off, but if Fyre TV is any indication, things look very promising. The system and technology itself is still in the early stages and nowhere near where its potential lies, but an entire library of porn that's constantly updated and always ready to play, all in one tiny little box, is a pretty enticing idea. If only the future, would get here already.

P.S. Fyre TV is still in beta, but you can sign up for a chance to be a test subject and get a box in your own home now. Our readers can use the code "fleshbot" when they register and get priority for boxes when they become available.

· Fyre TV (fyretv.com)

Geek porn came about in much in the same way that the pierced and tattooed girls of altporn did—in fact, back in the olden days (or at least the late '90s/early '00s), geek porn and good old fashioned altporn were pretty much both subsets of the same general amateur genre. Over time, though, both got co-opted by The Man: altporn became the province of such companies as VividAlt, and sexy geeks got such polished productions as "Whores of Warcraft" "Whorecraft" "Whorelore". If anything, the current incarnation of geek porn isn't so much a sign that geeks are making sex safe for work, or at least for dinner table conversation: it's more that Big Porn has recognized geekery as a mainstream (or mainstream enough) enough culture to eroticize, monetize, and cash in on.

But you don't really want a lecture on all that—you want pictures of naked geeky girls! Good thing we can provide that too.

· NSFW: Gamer Porn: Would You Pay for This? (kotaku.com)
· Thumbnail star: Ann Angel via Gamer Fetish (gamerfetish.com)

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· "beauty and the 'nurd'" (Megarotic)

If that's not depressing enough, try the dildo that puts you on a self-imposed sex strike based on the measurements of certain political and social facts. For example, if you set a "tolerance limit" of two Iraqi civilian deaths a day, then on any day where civilian deaths in Iraq exceed that number, the vibrator is locked out and you can't use it. No one dies and you're free to jack it! Awesome! Also creepy!

Obviously, these inventions are more Statements than useful masturbatory devices—it's probably better to imagine how a 8.5 quake would rock your hoo-hah instead of waiting for one. But the attempt to tie your daily orgasms to events affecting other people on Earth is a fascinating concept.

Both of these projects are being developed by a group called Cho-Yaba to compete for the "Golden Kleene" award at the next Arse Elektronika this fall. We're very interested in seeing the final results, even if given what we've seen so far their third as-yet-unveiled project—something called the "Perpetual Erection Machine"—is almost too spooky to contemplate. Even for us.

· a series of controversial dildonics (free.fr, via Slashdong)
· Controversial Dildonics (cho-yaba.com)
· Arse Elektronika 2008 (monochrom.at)

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· "Introducing Girl On Game: Justine Joli Signs Up As Our Guest Reviewer" (dasgamer.com)

It's also digitally connected, can call up and eject your favorite discs at the push of a button, and can even password protect the discs you don't want prying eyes to see. (What it doesn't do, sadly, it play any of these DVDs on your TV. Nobody's perfect.) If you find that you need this level of space-saving security, then this gadget could be the answer. Also: bless your dirty little heart

· Disc Manager 100 (discmakers.com)
· See also: DVD Disc Manager 100 Keeps Your Adult DVDs Safe (Gizmodo)

After Immersion won its lawsuit against Sony, Internet Services sued them, looking for a cut of the $90 million verdict. But now, halfway through the trial, the lawyer for Internet Services wants off the case and filed a motion to remove himself. So they are now suing him too, in order to force him to stay.

What does all of this have to do with orgasms? Well for starters, if you want to build and sell any sort of vibrating cybersex device, this one company can and probably will sue you for patent infringement unless you license their technology first. (Even a patent lawyer who makes his living doing this stuff doesn't want to work for them anymore, though he won't say why.) If you care about where your next buzz comes from—and who might stand to profit from it—these links might be worth a read.

· Keker & Van Nest wants to get away from client with cybersex patent rights (The Prior Art)
· Who Says Patent Lawsuits Aren't Sexy? (techdirt.com, via gadgets.boingboing.net)
· Immersion vibrates more than your games? (slashdong.org)
· Thumbnail via Slashdong

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· Nerd Girl X (nerdgirlx.com)
· Fleshbot Exclusive: Nerd Girl X Gallery (fleshbot.com)

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