Household gadgets for the nerd household

Remember [[The Legend of Zeldawhere the Old Man suggests that Link takes a sword with him because "it's dangerous to go alone"?This simple sentence...

This poster in German language mocks common motivational posters with a sarcastic text beneath the beautiful picture. Please switch to German for m...

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...

You don't need much for pen & paper role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons As the name suggests, pen, paper and a little imagination are all y...

These two tankards with the coats of arms of the houses Stark and Targaryen would also have made wonderful tableware at a wedding celebration. Unfo...

As is well known, there are different types of players in pen & paper games: those who just want to have fun, those for whom role-playing is most i...

If you ask yourself why Pokémon is so popular as a game, you'll probably come up with an ancient human instinct pretty quickly: hunting and gatheri...

Heroes got puzzles, superheroes got superpuzzles – in 3D instead of 2D! With the DC Comics 3D Puzzles, it's not about simply assembling a flat imag...

Could Naruto Uzumaki and his teacher Kakashi Hatake be any more different? Naruto is full of nonsense and never misses the opportunity for a joke, ...

In the Star Wars saga, there are several technically gifted hobbyists. Both Anakin and Luke are very successful at tinkering with droids or podrace...

When you see these images, you instantly know who drew them: Junji Ito, one of the most famous horror mangaka of Japan. With manga series such as T...

Medaillons have to be earned. In the Lord of the Rings universe, there are more than enough opportunities for that: The defeat of Sauron and the co...

Quidditch is not for the fainthearted: bloody noses, dangerous manoeuvres and fierce duels are just business as usual. It’s a sport that’s put Harr...

After Voldemort's return, his devoted followers start their secret meetings again, planning Harry's demise and the subjugation of the entire Muggle...

Collectible figures are nice to have, but sometimes they miss a certain Je ne sais quoi. And what might that be, you ask? Well, yellow rubber and a...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s comics not only made Superman the most famous superhero of all time, they actually founded a whole new comic genre. ...

A wand, a pewter cauldron, a set of glass or crystal phials, a telescope, a set of brass scales and a pet (please note: an owl OR a cat OR a toad)....

Getting out of bed in the morning can be quite an act of self-control. Sometimes it takes a deep reach into the bag of tricks to get yourself up. R...

Since 1939, the character of billionaire Bruce Wayne, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who dresses up in a bat costume at night and fights crim...

The fact that we as Muggles never got the chance to be sorted into one of the four Hogwarts houses by the Sorting Hat is something most Harry Potte...

In most role-playing games, we are tasked with slaying dragons and plundering their massive hoards of riches. But if we take a moment to reflect on...

Poor Desmond, he never gets any peace and quiet! Immediately after the events of Assassin’s Creed II, the fight between the Templars and the Assass...

Fortunately, crowded keyboards with tons of extra buttons that you’ll never actually use are (mostly) a thing of the past! Instead, more and more p...

If there’s one thing that the worldwide phenomenon known as Game of Thrones most certainly is not, is boring. The struggle for the Iron Throne of W...

Usually, turtles are rather slow and relaxed animals. But if they mutate just a bit and come into contact with martial arts… well, everything chang...

To call the T-800 from the Terminator movies the perfect death machine would probably be an understatement! The taciturn Terminator from Austria is...

The fights that your character has to carry out for you in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons might not be real – but the mental effort you have to...

Garden gnomes are a tricky topic... you either love them or you hate them from the bottom of your heart. If you relate to folks who'd love to send ...

When it comes to finding a keyboard that excels at typing, coding, gaming and all other tasks, one quickly arrives at mechanical keyboards. To be m...

Popular wisdom tells us: the stupidest farmers have the fattest potatoes. Does this saying also apply outside of agriculture? For example, what abo...

Loose lips sink ships! As soon as one of those technology Neanderthals gets wind of the fact that you know a thing or two about computers, they wil...

In the digital world, it's safe to assume that almost no aspect of our everyday lives would work without computer scientists. Following that logic,...

Did you co-worker eat your lunch again? Or did your roommate "forget" to clean the bathroom and kitchen the tenth time in a row? Sounds like it's t...

One of the best things about summer is the fact that you dry pretty quickly if you manage to get wet. Which means it's gonna be just fine to launch...

Do you know the definition of insanity? Calling somebody crazy even though their mother had them tested as a kid. How can one even doubt such a hig...