Christmas Gifts for Nerds

There are exactly two reasons why The Big Bang Theory can cause tears to run down your cheeks:1. You have to cry from laughing so hard.2. You find ...

If dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is leaking around you, you need to act fast! After all, this nasty chemical is extremely dangerous and sends countles...

Cooking with friends is so nice. You are handed a questionably discolored plastic board and told to dice something. When asked exactly how big thes...

Are you looking for a worthy timepiece for your wrist, but find analog watches totally boring and the slightly more modern digital version has long...

If you love really good point-and-click adventures from the golden age of video games, you will surely know the slightly crazy purple tentacle that...

A towel is pretty much the most useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can own.If you have a towel with you, others will automatically assume you ...

Simple computer games are often the best, which is why the arcade classic with the colorful Tetrominoes is still one of the most popular games on s...

If there's one place you wouldn't expect to find the giant lizard Godzilla, it would be in the kitchen. After all, the iconic scaly beast has much ...

The faction in our company that consists of self-confessed unicorn fans has set itself the goal of filling every last square inch of our everyday l...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

While others are still grumbling about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remind ourselves that it doesn't take many pixels to experience truly epic a...

Anyone who thinks that all nerds are the same has never witnessed a heated debate about whether D&D or DSA is the better pen & paper role-playing g...

Let someone say again that we humans are always interested in our own safety: Our investigative research has revealed that almost all people surrou...

Even computer scientists and those who want to become one have to take a vacation from time to time! Then they leave their basement at home for a s...

Do you know that? You want to become a pirate, one of those really exemplary, rough-and-tumble pirates and then everything goes wrong? No one reall...

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

While nerds and geeks have already conquered large parts of everyday life and can show off their preferences with cool shirts and iconic mugs, the ...

If you leave the EU or the Schengen area, you generally always have to take a valid passport with you, as the German ID card, for example, is not a...

To survive in battle, you need the right equipment. Knights and soldiers in the Middle Ages knew this too. They often carried a sword in one hand t...

The stereotypical nerd is known to live on cold pizza and warm cola. This cliché, which has been propagated by countless films, series and books, h...

If you believe a well-known advertisement and the resulting meme, the most interesting man in the world drinks beer. We've never heard such nonsens...

Another piece from our own geek jewelry collection: the DNA molecule earrings. Jay! :)What could be more personal than giving a little piece of DNA...

Of course, a real geek household also needs a corresponding doormat. And geeks know best anyway that @home (at your own computer) is the best place...

"That's the greatest monkey I've ever seen!"We're sure that's exactly what Guybrush Threepwood would say to this specimen of a three-headed monkey ...

Every race in the most famous science fiction series of all time has its strengths: Klingons are the best fighters, Vulcans the brightest minds and...

The computer is making noise, but the TV is black.Error messages like this can really only freak you out as an IT professional. Or fall into a deep...

"Oh no! What's that on your face? Like a facehugger? Wait, I'll get the M41A pulse rifle quickly!" You have to be prepared for a reaction like that...

It's perfectly normal if you sometimes take a little longer to respond or react to things. For example, if you haven't had enough sleep, are suffer...

Ever since school lessons at the latest, it should be clear to everyone that nothing works without chemistry. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the s...

Anyone who enjoys playing classic role-playing games knows how dependent you can sometimes feel on the luck of the dice. But you are not completely...

Pluto is not only chronically lonely, so far away from the SunEarth and all the others, the poor celestial body has also been cast out of the plane...

A ghost lives in this cube,who always tears off a new leaf for you, even late at night from the large, white round cube.If you look around the sani...

We proudly present: our Geek Gems. At last, fashion-conscious geeks no longer have to make their jewelry (only) from discarded electronic parts. Or...

In the iconic Souls games, the same relentless red text appears after every death: YOU DIED. No mercy, no comfort — just the truth. Anyone who know...

We all know the old adage: cooking is art, baking is science. After all, messed-up dishes can usually be salvaged somehow, whereas one milligram to...