Science gadgets and science toys

Are you tired of wrapping your cool, geeky gifts, which you have chosen with love and care (ideally in our store, of course) ;) in irrelevant or ev...

Do you spend a lot of time at the computer and also eat in front of it, for example? Then you should think about cleaning your keyboard, because it...

If you've ever dreamed of taming a storm, then we've got just the thing for you: the Tornado Lamp. Instead of lava, a rotating vortex of water swir...

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" - none other than Stephen Hawking said this sentence. And he's right: on this Intelligence - Steph...

There are many curious and often somewhat strange-looking creatures in the deep sea. One of the best known is probably the so-called blobfish, whos...

There are different ways to learn your chemistry lessons.One of them would be with jokes:When helium comes into a bar, the bartender says: 'Sorry, ...

Mary Anning dug up fossils while the world still believed women didn't belong in science. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes. Grace Hopper invented t...

Do you sometimes have the feeling that the weight of the world, indeed the whole universe, is on your shoulders? With the sun, moon and earth stres...

The moon has exerted a huge fascination on people since time immemorial and for good reason. After all, it influences the tides of the oceans and e...

This sobering choice of words by the Borg before assimilation illustrates the advantages of a collective consciousness and the knowledge shared by ...

A hollow copper cylinder and a small neodymium sphere - that's all you need to play a fascinating trick on gravity and turn magnetodynamics into a ...

At this point, we would like to dispel the widespread prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is rather tha...

Was math your absolute favorite subject at school and you just couldn't get enough of it? If you could still solve math problems 'around the clock'...

Sometimes you don't need a beach vacation or a remote mountain hut to escape the daily grind - sometimes a small change of perspective on your own ...

You've probably seen it somewhere before - in movies, TV series or with the cool boss in the office: this rhythmically swinging ball game that has ...

First of all, what is MaKey MaKey and what can it do?MaKey MaKey (Make + Key), a Kickstarter project, is a kit that contains all the necessary comp...

Footballers have the hold up, hippies have the hacky sack and us nerds... we have Feel Flux! This anti-stress and skill game uses the laws of physi...

Some call it arrogance, one engineer calls it expertise. Where the problems begin for others, they find the solutions - in ways that a normal perso...

What happens when physics, design and the urge to play come together? The Feel Flux Spin Flux provides the answer: a high-quality fidget object tha...

Once the gel from your Plantarium Super or Plantarium Garden Lab has been used up and your plants have either been repotted or eaten, you can start...

Experts are still debating whether the fearsome T-Rex was an active predator or rather a scavenger. We know better. Of course, it simply ate everyt...

Nikola Tesla would have loved it: As early as the 1980s, the plasma lamp was the ultimate status symbol for anyone who preferred to furnish their r...

As a child, you always wanted to swing higher - ideally all the way to the stars. The astronaut in this design has simply stayed true to that dream...

The Swinging Sticks Chaos Pendulum - at first glance an art object, at second glance a fascinating physical experiment. The seemingly weightless, c...

Although being an astronaut is one of the dream jobs of our childhood, the job is ultimately not as appealing as it looks at first glance: it's dan...

Even nerds like us make mistakes when setting up our differential equations and drawing blueprints for spaceships that will finally take us into th...

What looks like a portal to another dimension is actually an ingenious interplay of light and mirrors - the Infinity Mirror makes physics visible a...

A strong magnetic field in the living room? Sounds like a sci-fi scenario or a minor accident while playing Feel Flux. But don't worry - with the F...

There are days when only one thing helps: a hot drink and a view of our beautiful planet - and that's exactly what the NASA astronaut thermo effect...

Michael Faraday discovered in 1831 that a moving magnet generates current in a conductor – Lenz's law. That's all well and good, but what if you co...