Fun and games - toys and kits for nerds

Of all the worlds man has created, that of books is the most powerful. - Heinrich HeineAnyone who loves books will understand and probably agree w...

One thing is present in virtually every action movie, zombie game or gangster series: the good, old pumpgun! The satisfying click clack upon reload...

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...

It’s no secret that space is a vacuum. Not a sound can be heard in it. Still, the heavenly bodies and music go together wonderfully. Just something...

Every true dinosaur fan has certainly dreamed more than once of experiencing the prehistoric giants alive. Unfortunately, time travel is still not ...

Battery-powered clocks are definitely easier to use and more convenient in everyday life compared to their mechanical counterparts. However, automa...

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...

These miniature houses are the dream of every detail-loving hobbyist. Choose one of the different sceneries and lose yourself in the design and dec...

In recent decades, technology has changed faster than ever before. Sometimes our still stone-age brains just can't keep up. Who doesn't know the fe...

We associate cannons inevitably with castles and knights, don’t we? Although, they looked a little different from this model back then. The first t...

The invention of the telescope was quite the groundbreaker in human history. Actually invented by the Dutch optician Hans Lipperhey in 1608, it was...

What’s the one thing that stereotypical Donut Cops, Clint Eastwood and cowboys have in common? Exactly, they all carry around revolvers! According ...

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard ShawWho would know that better than the gamers among ...

Even though people who actually know a thing or two about art will probably want to lynch us, we have to say that, sometimes, a piece of art on you...

As fans of the indomitable Gauls, we don’t usually credit the Romans with much martial skill. And in fact, much of their knowledge originally came ...

Even though our smartphones allow us to have access to a digital calendar basically 24/7, a “real” calendar on the desk or the wall still looks bet...