Gifts for nerds

Are there piles of dirty dishes in your kitchen? Are creepy noises coming from your sink? And what smells so funny? It almost looks like you have a...

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 ...

If you love really good point-and-click adventures from the golden age of video games, you will surely know the slightly crazy purple tentacle that...

There are exactly two reasons why The Big Bang Theory can cause tears to run down your cheeks:1. You have to cry from laughing so hard.2. You find ...

The Force is a powerful ally, but it attracts a lot of attention when you, like Anakin in the prequels, simply let the food float through the air. ...

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...

Cooking with friends is so nice. You are handed a questionably discolored plastic board and told to dice something. When asked exactly how big thes...

If dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is leaking around you, you need to act fast! After all, this nasty chemical is extremely dangerous and sends countles...

A towel is about the most useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.If you have a towel with you, others automatically assume that you also ...

Simple computer games are often the best, which is why the arcade classic with the colorful Tetrominoes is still one of the most popular games on s...

If there's one place you wouldn't expect to find the giant lizard Godzilla, it would be in the kitchen. After all, the iconic scaly beast has much ...

The halflings are often ridiculed - for their size, their hairy feet or their eating habits. But let's be honest, we actually envy them their seven...

Cookies - the small text files that are stored on your computer - have been around for a while. But we have only had to consent to their use for no...

Let someone say again that we humans are always interested in our own safety: Our investigative research has revealed that almost all people surrou...

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

When the dirty dishes in your kitchen start to pile up so high that you start to expect to see the fiery eye of Sauron enthroned on them, it's actu...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

While others are still grumbling about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remind ourselves that it doesn't take many pixels to experience truly epic a...

Do you know that? You want to become a pirate, one of those really exemplary, rough-and-tumble pirates and then everything goes wrong? No one reall...

For anyone who comes into contact with chemicals such as sodium chloride and dihydrogen monoxide on a daily basis, handles all kinds of acids and b...

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

We nerds often make a strange impression on other people. After all, we spend our free time hacking at monsters with swords or sitting in front of ...

Even computer scientists and those who want to become one have to take a vacation from time to time! Then they leave their basement at home for a s...

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 ...

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...

The stereotypical nerd is known to live on cold pizza and warm cola. This cliché, which has been propagated by countless films, series and books, h...

If you leave the EU or the Schengen area, you generally always have to take a valid passport with you, as the German ID card, for example, is not a...

The legendary hammer Mjölnir helps Thor fight ice giants, red buttons and other monsters. On calmer days, however, he can also conjure up a good pi...

It's perfectly normal if you sometimes take a little longer to respond or react to things. For example, if you haven't had enough sleep, are suffer...

Another piece from our own geek jewelry collection: the DNA molecule earrings. Jay! :)What could be more personal than giving a little piece of DNA...

"That's the greatest monkey I've ever seen!"We're sure that's exactly what Guybrush Threepwood would say to this specimen of a three-headed monkey ...

The computer is making noise, but the TV is black.Error messages like this can really only freak you out as an IT professional. Or fall into a deep...

Of course, a real geek household also needs a corresponding doormat. And geeks know best anyway that @home (at your own computer) is the best place...

You call it "baking", we call it "experiment on the behavior of various chemicals under constant heating". And of course we don't need "flour", "sa...

Contrary to their claims, the dwarves' hospitality is rather limited. The events in Moria, for example, show that they have every reason to fear in...