Living room and bedroom gadgets for nerds

There are exactly two reasons why The Big Bang Theory can make tears trickle down your cheeks: 1. You cry from laughing. 2. You find out that the s...

To many people, especially to those who don't know a lot about computers, the Cloud seems to be a mystical place – all your data is simply beamed ...

Anyone who's even remotely interested in electronics and tinkering would probably take a bath in LEDs, batteries, transistors and other parts Scroo...

Simple computer games are still the best! Right? That's why after 30 years, the arcade classic with the colourful tetrominos is still one of the mo...

Keys are an important part of our daily lives. Who doesn't use them a few times a day to get into their house, office, car, cupboard, safe? Th...

We're pretty sure we know what Guybrush Threepwood would say about this example of a three-headed monkey from the monkey island. It's just too bad ...

The home of a real geek needs a geeky doormat. This one expresses the common feeling amongst geeks that their own home with their own computer is 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...

Monty Python and The Holy Grail has long been part of general education and not just nerdy topics. Some jokes, however, are especially present in n...

Whilst others are still ranting about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remember that an epic game doesn't need too many pixels. Alright, a litt...

Nerds can't be romantic? That's just a prejudice, of course. Or why else would we have gone to the trouble of creating a Candlestick lightsaber? Th...

OK, you're allowed to admit it: Maths was your favourite subject at school and you just couldn't get enough of it, right? And even today ...

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

For some reason, scientific terms tend to leave many people in awe – even frightened at times. For example, if you were to tell your colleagues tha...

Let’s talk about dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). This colourless and odourless chemical is extremely dangerous and yet we all come into contact with it...

Trust in God is one thing. Most scientists here would probably reject it as the basis of their existence. It's hardly verifiable, very uncertain an...

As we all know, still waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, still the basic principle of the...

Blechschild Kein Backup - Kein Mitleid

Before the pandemic, no one would have understood the connection between the A38 pass and the vaccination certificate. However, anyone who wanted t...

USB flash drives, external hard drives and tiny memory cards have long since outpaced their predecessors. While those old media lacked modern memor...

In a giant open-world role-playing video game, it's easy to get lost among hordes of enemies, quests and other distractions. And when dragons start...

Originally, the experiment colloquially referred to as “Schrödinger’s Cat” was supposed to demonstrate a problem of quantum mechanics. Today, it’s ...

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

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” – no less a person than Stephen Hawking said this sentence. And he is right: On this Intelligence ...

As we all know, Hobbits like to celebrate every single thing you could imagine: eleventy-first birthdays, exceptionally good second breakfasts and ...

Let's be honest: In the digital age, very few people need the advertising brochures that land in their mailboxes more or less regularly. But someho...

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...

In 1989, Phil Katz thought that you could really make money with compression. He was not entirely wrong, because the invention of the ZIP format ma...

Since artificial intelligence was first introduced, people have been equally fascinated by it while terrified it might enact world domination. The ...

It's simply amazing how new life is created: first, a small facehugger jumps out of its egg and gives the mother a really long hug. After that, a t...

Yes, we all know the stereotype: nerds don't like to party and would even spend their birthday in front of the computer instead of going out with f...

Finally there's a chance for pirates and Pastafaris to build their own shrine with the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster. In contrast to other non-prov...

In addition to their numerous magical properties, unicorns somehow manage to stay clean in every imaginable situation: rain, thunderstorms, mud ava...