Christmas gifts

In 1958, the invention of instant ramen ushered in a new era of fast food: Hot water on top, wait, done! Nowadays, ramen is very popular all over t...

Don't we all dream of constructing our own robot? Unfortunately, pretty much anything beyond a fighting machine designed for Robot Wars can be pret...

The journey of the Fellowship, which sets out to destroy the One Ring and prevent the reign of terror of Sauron is not only dangerous and adventuro...

Year after year, millions of trees across the world are chopped down, only to be displayed in living rooms, shopping malls and Christmas markets fo...

Battles make you thirsty, even if they are only fought with cards. To maintain concentration and not get dehydrated during an important game, it ma...

Yes, we all know the stereotype: the male nerd enjoys a science-fiction classic like Star Wars while his girlfriend slowly drifts off to sleep. Fir...

There's a war coming! A war for the human body! But instead of fighting off foreign threats such as bacteria and viruses, the organs are turning on...

What do aliens have to do with Christmas and Santa Claus? Well, for starters, aliens actually do exist. And the thin, grey men are responsible for ...

Patience is a virtue, they say. But they never tell you how to become patient and achieve a state of absolute relaxation. So it looks like we've go...

This lamp brings together what belongs together: the iconic geometric lamp shape of the lava lamp, known to most kids from the 70s and 90s, and the...

No matter how great the graphics of today's games are, they will never be able to beat the nostalgia factor of their ancient predecessors. For many...

Every adventure needs a spectacular escape, an exciting chase, or a dangerous hike through unknown lands – or maybe all three of them. But this is ...

As we all know, Schrödinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time, at least as long you don't look in the box ;). Our Schrödinger's Cat Plu...

Finishing a puzzle is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, you successfully put 300, 500 or even 1000 pieces together; on the other hand, you hav...

Only one egg is left on the breakfast table. You look to your left ... You look to your right. Your family is fixating their greedy eyes on the per...

Depending on the particular area of the nerd and geek subculture, it can be hard to express one's hobbies in everyday life. Sure, fans of natural s...

The kitchen can be a dangerous place - you handle acid, sharp blades and high heat and trigger chemical reactions. There should be a lot more warni...

If school has taught us one thing, it's that nothing would work without chemistry. Ever since shedding the stigma of alchemy in the 17th and 18th c...

We'd like to fight the common prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is that they need constant care, whic...

If you’ve ever played a pen-and-paper RPG or a good fantasy video game, you’ll have developed a healthy distrust of chests. Because it’s impossible...

If you ask die-hard science-fiction fans who the most iconic bad guys are, then some would be sure to name the stormtroopers. These imperial goons ...

As we learned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, students at Hogwarts have access to not only boring old showers but also luxurious baths with...

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The planet of Mandalore is known mainly, among other things, for its martial inhabitants, its weapons and the metal alloy Beskar. Beskar is an incr...

The War of the Worlds book safe offers you an easy way to hide valuables or other things that are important to you. At first glance, the safe looks...

Whether for celebrations, important meetings with the family or negotiations with new business partners - the Garrison Pub is the Peaky Blinders' h...

These gloves look rather normal when used in daylight, but when it becomes dark, they start to glow in a green colour, which makes them the perfect...

The endless universe still awaits us? The moon is still the only celestial body we humans have set foot on, and even Mars will remain unexplored fo...

If you still think of colourful plastic slides when you hear the word “marble run”, you're not necessarily wrong – but you're not quite right eithe...

Do you know this too? As soon as you get into the kitchen to cook, dozens of chemical questions start running through your head. What is the atomic...

What didn't work the first time will certainly work the second time. Or the third. Maybe you can help the Empire rebuild the Death Star. Unfortunat...

In the Studio Ghibli movie “My Neighbour Totoro”, a small family moves to a house in the country – and quickly realises that the land and adjacent ...

In the fabulous world of Harry Potter, the owl Hedwig is truly a marvelous animal. With her intelligence and dedication, she becomes far more to Ha...

The frightening, mysterious Night Fury that terrorises the village Berk in the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” turns out to be a cute and rather s...