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...

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...

The cloud seems like a mystical place, especially to those unfamiliar with computers - all your data is simply beamed up into the sky! Unfortunatel...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

“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 ...

Blechschild Kein Backup - Kein Mitleid

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Some games stand out from the crowd so much that they are still remembered decades later. The first-person shooter about Gordon Freeman is a good e...

Imagine running, jumping and diving through hazardous levels while malicious turtles and devious mushrooms have it in for you. And now imagine the ...

Sometimes it's the smallest, most inconspicuous things that have a big impact on our lives – like those little bags for keeping electronics, leathe...

Pluto isn't just chronically lonely - far away from the sun, the Earth, and the other celestial bodies of our solar system - the poor orb has even ...

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

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