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This is what you get when you cross a steam engine with a beetle: steampunk battle beetles. So you'd better watch out when assembling these insects...

The fearsome Emperor Scorpion looks like a fighting machine that was specially built for the battlefields of a steampunk universe. At first glance,...

In addition to a great story, good actors and a certain budget, every aspiring dystopian science fiction novel needs some sort of artificial intell...

While electronics certainly is a complex and fascinating field, many newcomers are put off by the sheer amount of complex information out there. Wh...

This suicidal mosfet organizes itself in a short circuit loop and waits for someone to follow his invitation to perform the fatal button push.

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

The English word engineer is on Wikipedia's list of the most commonly misspelled words.Problems with that word also exist in other languages. ...

How can I do X? And how does Y work? Can I do Z instead? Almost 99 percent of all questions that admins, helpdesks and other service agents get tor...

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15 nerds on the admin's chest, yo-ho-ho and a mug of coffee! If ye arrrr one o' them people who be Pi rates, you should tell ever'one by wearing th...

Before bothering other people, it's always a good idea to read the manual. Or as this pin puts it bluntly: read the fluffing manual!

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Are you bored of wrapping your cool, geeky gifts, which you picked out with love and care, (ideally from our shop, of course!)– in oh-so boooring w...

Sooner or later, everyone of us will need to tighten a screw, open a bottle or saw through ropes or other material on the go (trust us, the rope th...

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

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...

There are too many newbies around. If you do not want to answer dumb questions or deinstall AOL for the 10th time, then you may want to buy this t-...

Finishing a puzzle is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, you successfully put 300, 500 or even 1000 pieces together; on the other hand, you hav...

With a Potato Clock, you won't need batteries or electricity from the power socket anymore –(at least not to know what time it is).Do you reme...

We're living in a time where everybody can take photos with their phone! But people don't care about framing, focusing and lighting the p...

Awaken your ingenuity with MaKey MaKey! Turn apples into computer game controllers or invent a 'banana keys' piano. The MaKey MaKey Kit offers ever...

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 ...

Star Wars fans watch out ... Here comes a smash hit: the Force from Star Wars is real! At least if you misunderstand the second Newtonian law – or ...

This Metal Earth Craft Kit space line contains 11 building kits of particularly fine achievements in engineering technology, including:[[Mars Rover...

When you were a kid, did you used to love rolling marbles down a run and watching them roll down and around and around...? It was probably only mad...

As nerds, we like jokes and plays on words that outsiders might not get. Our favourite dead horse to beat is the number Pi. After all, Pi is basica...

Building a house still appears to be a solid investment in your future – as long as you have the necessary funds (or the skills to build everything...

Engineers are particularly efficient. The main reason for this lies in their near-perfect dedication to their work, as illustrated in this diagram....

Many myths exist about how engineers manage to find solutions for problems that mere mortals could never hope to solve: pagan blood sacrifices, com...

Maybe the Borg should re-think their dress code and instead, put on the Resistance is futile T. Shirt which would be better than wired overalls tha...

Looks like the Borg are in need of a physics lesson or two! Obviously, they've failed to assimilate a culture having at least some basic knowl...

It's not enough for talented coders to write their own code, they try to analyze other programs and hardware too! For example, they'll wr...

An answer to every single newbee question... Now you do not even have to make the effort to open your mouth!For those who do not know (and are afra...

No matter whether it’s just a “simple” manufacturing unit or an interplanetary killer android from a science fiction movie, robots are cool. That’s...

Sometimes it's astonishingly easy to hack into other computer systems. Just pick up your phone and say: "Hi. This is your system administ...

On expeditions into the vastness of space, all the glory ultimately goes to the captain, although without the engineers there wouldn’t even be a sh...