Living room and bedroom gadgets for nerds
If you like amazing point-and-click adventures from the golden age of video games, you'll most certainly know the slightly mad purple tentacle, who...
View full detailsKeys 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...
View full detailsSimple 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...
View full detailsWhilst 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...
View full detailsMany have long since realised it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an adequate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply don’t offer enough...
View full detailsWe'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 ...
View full detailsThe good, old cartridges from the NES video game console were (almost) built like tanks: The sturdy grey plastic managed to protect the electronics...
View full detailsUSB flash drives, external hard drives and tiny memory cards have long since outpaced their predecessors. While those old media lacked modern memor...
View full detailsNerds 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...
View full detailsEven back in the days of the Nintendo Gameboy, you could simply switch off with a good round of Kirby and go on an adventure with the little round ...
View full detailsAre you a retro gamer with a penchant for legendary point-and-click adventures? Or an aspiring politician? Then this sticker is just the thing for ...
View full detailsImagine running, jumping and diving through hazardous levels while malicious turtles and devious mushrooms have it in for you. And now imagine the ...
View full detailsLike all villains, the dark side of the Force usually lures us in with empty promises. Who hasn't heard the famous quote from Darth Vader to Luke: ...
View full detailsEven if you always hated eating vegetables as a child, video games show that conscious eating can have a lot of positive consequences. For example,...
View full detailsIt is no coincidence that this tape dispenser is shaped like a cassette. Because in English, the word "tape" means both adhesive tape and audio tap...
View full detailsIf you’re wondering why a music cassette, of all things, makes such a good key rack, you were most likely born after 1999. Everyone else will know ...
View full detailsArcade machines, asteroids, spaceships, lasers… Ring any bells? Of course! After all, every child of the 1980s (and geeks who know their tribe’s hi...
View full detailsDuring his adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario has to face a multitude of dangers: hazardous obstacles, carnivorous plants and Bowser...
View full detailsAfter the destruction of the Death Star at the latest, the X-Wing became the symbol of the Rebel Alliance. One can only imagine how upset those in ...
View full detailsThe year 1990 changed our lives forever when the first Gameboy came on the market. The absolute horror for parents and teachers, because it was dif...
View full detailsWhat does a hero truly need? A magic sword, a mithril shirt and magical powers? Well, those and a proper jacket, of course. After all, what good is...
View full detailsRemember [[The Legend of Zeldawhere the Old Man suggests that Link takes a sword with him because "it's dangerous to go alone"?This simple sentence...
View full detailsWhy do we actually assume that the aliens that statistically must exist in space are hostile to us? This prejudice is reproduced in numerous films,...
View full detailsYou bring security and stability to the entire galaxy. You don't expect fame or recognition in return, but there's one thing you won't do without: ...
View full detailsTo the question of whether Father Christmas really exists, we can unequivocally answer "Yes!". Unfortunately, he just never manages to deliver his ...
View full detailsIn the Upside-Down, many things are different than in our world. For example, it is permanently the year 1983 there. But that doesn't stop the Stra...
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