• 25 Geeky Valentine Gifts for Under $25

    Another gift-giving holiday approaches! For the geeks out there, finding that perfect present can be a torturous endeavor, often ending in failure. I find loads of awesome things I know my friends would love, but they are just way too pricey for my shallow pockets. In my searches, I have stumbled across a good collection…

  • The Lazy Person’s Guide to Computing

    Diligence, discipline, and self-control; all qualities I lack, for the most part. I work best in heady chunks, urged along by my desperate fear of failure and the rumbling momentum of oncoming wordy outpourings. Indeed, once my brain gets up to speed and my fingers start punching the keys, it’s dangerous to stop. Still, it’s…

  • Home Decor: Your Geeky Home

    Home is where the heart is, sure, but it’s also where you showcase your collection of all things geek that you’ve built throughout your lifetime. A shelf for figurines here, and a glass case for movie props there. Showing off our toys is important, but how about the rest of your place? Do you have…

  • Magnificence and Mediocrity: Prospects from CES 2014

    This year’s installment of the Consumer Electronics Show concluded on Friday, but not before showing the world’s press a bevy of eye-catching gadgets and gizmos that will provide them with material for weeks of keyboard-based clicking and clacking (possibly even dull thudding for those with shedding and persistently workstation-adjacent animals.) As is inevitably the case…

  • White Castle: The Ultimate Craver’s Candle

    Oh how I would love to wake up to the pungent yet heavenly smell of grilled onions and beef patties. White Castle has hit the jackpot with its “steam-grilled-on-a-bed-of-onions Original Slider®-scented candles.” White Castle…Candles? Beginning in May 2010, White Castle teamed up with Nest Fragrances and developed a slider-scented candle for the celebration of the…

  • Mistletoe Drone And The Romantic Magic Of Christmas

    Pucker up, San Francisco. This holiday season, George Zisiadis and Mustafa Khan thought they’d spread a little Christmas cheer to couples in San Francisco Union Square. How? A mistletoe and tinsel decorated drone. Romantic Drones? “Drones have been causing all sorts of paranoia lately and I wanted to reframe them from being something scary and…

  • The Geek’s Guide to Staying Fit

    Geeks, and I can proudly admit to being one of them, are traditionally agoraphobic, and therefore avoid wildly social settings. We also are kind of loners, and maybe even a little self-conscious when it comes to our bodies. That being said, we sometimes still like to be healthy and fit, and with New Year’s Resolutions…

  • Ants Use Bodies To Act Like Liquids Or Solids, NYT Says

    Uhm…what? New York Times Short Shows Versatility Of Ants The New York Times has produced an awesome short about ants, more specifically, the ability of a large amount to both flow like a liquid and become a solid ball. It’s pretty disgusting but also amazing! Check out the GIF demonstrating their abilities above. On the…

  • Ridiculous Rubik’s Cube Is An 11x11Puzzle-Solving Pain Fest

    Alright, all of you puzzle-Nazis, get a load of this… Not Just An Average Rubik’s Cube We’ve all had a regular, run of the mill Rubik’s cube, and yet only a handful of us have a good enough understanding of the algorithm method to actually solve it. But what about THIS monstrosity?  It’s available on…

  • LEGO Car Built By Romanian Kid Has A LEGO Engine And Actually Drives

    Built from 500,000 bricks, a LEGO car with, get this, a working LEGO engine has surfaced in Australia. LEGO Car Propelled By Working LEGO Engine Sure, this hot rod may not zip along at lightning speed, but the fact remains that someone was able to build a working engine from LEGO bricks, and for us,…

  • Santa Inserted In Iconic Works Of Art, Hilarity Ensues

    It’s that time of year! The time where we take our near and dear holiday traditions and make fun of them until our sides hurt. Photographer Recreates Masterpieces Using Santa Costume Ed Wheeler, a photographer, has inserted photos of himself in a Santa Claus suit into famous works of art. He likes to call this…

  • Geeky Christmas Presents Without Going Postal

    So, Christmas/Hogswatch isn’t that far away and you have to get something for the Geek you love… Maybe it’s a new romance and they only just told you that they want presents, maybe they’re that weird family member who sometimes comes to family dinners dressed as a Dalek, maybe you’re the kind of person who…

  • Snowball Blaster: Not Just For Kids

    Tis’ the season! No, no. Forget those presents and cookies. Tis’ the season to slam your next-door-neighbor in the side of the head with a blaster-propelled ball of snow when he least expects it. I love this time of year. Wham-O Snowball Blaster Picks Off Targets At Up To 80 Feet Away Complete with a…

  • Most Popular Holiday Toys From The Last 50 Years

    Christmas is less than two weeks away and we think now is the perfect time to step back and take a good look at the holiday season’s most popular toy’s over the last 50 years. Just about everything you would expect to be on this list is there (Can I please go back to the…