Unusual gifts

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

There is power in calm. But sometimes the calm lies in things that are rather restless in themselves: the swinging of a pendulum, the roaring of th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...