Unusual gifts

Without a measuring jug, we would be lost in the kitchen! Cooking is always possible without precise measurements, but when it comes to baking, we ...

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...

As a nerd store, we don't normally offer religious devotional items. Normally. Because we make an exception for the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the n...

The Plantarium Garden Lab lets seeds sprout without you having to water them regularly. Ideal if normal houseplants don't have a long life in your ...

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've ever dreamed of taming a storm, then we've got just the thing for you: the Tornado Lamp. Instead of lava, a rotating vortex of water swir...

There are many curious and often somewhat strange-looking creatures in the deep sea. One of the best known is probably the so-called blobfish, whos...

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...

This lamp brings together what belongs together: the shape of the lava lamp, which children of the 70s and 90s may remember as an object of desire,...

At this point, we would like to dispel the widespread prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is rather tha...

It's fascinating how a distant celestial body can influence us in our everyday lives. You've probably woken up in the morning completely exhausted ...

Circuit boards, capacitors, batteries, LEDs and the like - anyone who lives for electronics with heart and soul could bathe in these things. Unfort...

A hollow copper cylinder and a small neodymium sphere - that's all you need to play a fascinating trick on gravity and turn magnetodynamics into a ...

It has been over 1000 years since the Vikings terrified the whole of Europe, and they continue to fascinate people to this day. Apart from their ma...

Welcome to the future - or rather: your future. The Future City Cyberpunk marble run kit takes you into a glowing neon world full of technical soph...

Sometimes you don't need a beach vacation or a remote mountain hut to escape the daily grind - sometimes a small change of perspective on your own ...

Dinosaur skulls are quite impressive - the only problem is that they are quite rare, quite expensive and private ownership is quite illegal. So wha...

"Life finds a way." Does this quote sound familiar? Then the Jurassic Park lamp: Amber with Mosquito is sure to find its way into your home soon. T...

There is power in calm. But sometimes the calm lies in things that are rather restless in themselves: the swinging of a pendulum, the roaring of th...

What if you could end every evening with a view into space - without leaving the house? The astronaut laser star projector makes just that possible...

Pirates and pastafarians finally have the opportunity to set up a shrine to the sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Unlike other deities that cannot b...

Mary Anning dug up fossils while the world still believed women didn't belong in science. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes. Grace Hopper invented t...

Forget everything your chemistry teacher ever said to you. (Unless it was Walther White himself, you can really still learn something from him). Do...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, can certainly be viewed critically, but every now and then you discover a few sparks of truth in his ...

What happens when physics, design and the urge to play come together? The Feel Flux Spin Flux provides the answer: a high-quality fidget object tha...

Experts are still debating whether the fearsome T-Rex was an active predator or rather a scavenger. We know better. Of course, it simply ate everyt...

Why travel the world when you can build it in the comfort of your living room or study? The illuminated wooden globe kit combines crafting fun, ret...

The Swinging Sticks Chaos Pendulum - at first glance an art object, at second glance a fascinating physical experiment. The seemingly weightless, c...

Welcome to Isla Nublar!As a visitor to Jurassic World, you can't miss any of the big attractions here, and of course the feeding of the Mosasaurus ...

Nikola Tesla would have loved it: As early as the 1980s, the plasma lamp was the ultimate status symbol for anyone who preferred to furnish their r...

The human heart beats an average of 100,000 times a day – but it has never looked this good doing it. The Heart Vase is a detailed replica of an an...

Around 1831, Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created a woodblock print that would change the world forever: The Great Wave off Kanagawa — a ragi...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have stood silently on the horizon for centuries, gazing into nothingness – mysterious, imposing, immobile. Now y...