# Cool Nerd Toys **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298 "2006-11-13T20:57:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/21 "2006-11-14T14:39:27Z")
Sorta geeky. [http://store.theonion.com/product\_info.php?products\_id=145](http://store.theonion.com/product_info.php?products_id=145) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/22 "2006-11-14T16:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=BubbaDog] [Rattlesnake Eggs](http://www.sillyasstoys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=409) [/QUOTE] Possibly amusing anecdote: an officemate brought these in a few months ago. He was doing the “pinch-toss” trick to make that rattling-buzz noise. I took them to play with them, and discovered that you can make distorted images and bizarre colors if you put one or both of the “eggs” against the screen of a CRT, as they’re way more powerful than ordinary magnets. I also discovered that if you leave them on the screen too long you completely fuck up the display. Luckily for me, I discovered this on his screen, and not mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/23 "2006-11-14T17:06:42Z")
This is the Geekiest prop of all, if you’re always prepared. > **[Batman's Shakespeare bust](https://www.engadget.com/2005-07-28-batmans-shakespeare-bust.html)** > > We never really did get the significance of Bruce Wayne's choice of Shakespeare as his Batcave entry device-as opposed to Sherlock Holmes or some other cliché-but no way in hell is that going to stop us from tipping our hats to this $300 "working"... ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/24 "2006-11-14T21:54:27Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] Jeez… five pounds of silly putty? I can finally achieve my dream of being covered in nothing but silly putty. I wonder how much I would need to completely cover everything but my face? [/QUOTE] OK. I can see being covered in whipped cream. Or chocolate syrup. Or pudding. But Silly Putty? Aren’t you concerned about hair getting stuck? And what about the “comic strip” effect? It would look like someone flayed off your skin when you take it off! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/25 "2006-11-15T00:39:02Z")
[QUOTE=Yeeter] I think the zero-fog blaster looks cool. And if I thought I could pull off owning a stuffed animal at 36 I would get the plush Cthulhu. [/QUOTE] It’s not a stuffed _animal_, silly. It’s a stuffed dread eldritch creature. That makes all the difference. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/26 "2006-11-15T01:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] It’s not a stuffed _animal_, silly. It’s a stuffed dread eldritch creature. That makes all the difference. [/QUOTE] Well, yeah, but if ryobserver laughs at me for holding it, does it bite ry or me? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/27 "2006-11-15T02:31:00Z")
[American Science and Surplus](http://www.sciplus.com/) usually has some good stuff. (Model brains, Soviet gas masks, glow in the dark paint…shucks, you could have a good weekend in Vegas with this stuff!) ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/28 "2006-11-15T03:06:10Z")
[United Nuclear](http://www.unitednuclear.com/) is pretty cool as well. All sorts of cool and/or radioactive stuff, like Uranium Marbles (with free Uranium ore!) … This is more for the hardcore Mad Scientist kind of geek, rather than the “hey cool, look at this sushi-shaped USB drive” geek. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/29 "2006-11-15T04:02:45Z")
Dang it, who had the “Black Death World Tour” 13th Century Tee shirt? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aserrann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@Aserrann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aserrann)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/30 "2006-11-15T05:32:30Z")
This is a good bit out of the listed price range, and from australia, so don’t know about shipping, but if it’s a computer nerd, i can’t see them not liking a [USB Missile Launcher](http://www.tesora.com.au/p/100/ELGE4072/USB_Missile_Launcher.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/31 "2006-11-15T09:16:20Z")
[QUOTE=Aserrann] This is a good bit out of the listed price range, and from australia, so don’t know about shipping, but if it’s a computer nerd, i can’t see them not liking a [USB Missile Launcher](http://www.tesora.com.au/p/100/ELGE4072/USB_Missile_Launcher.htm) [/QUOTE] I was just coming to post that toy. I WANT ONE! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298/32 "2006-11-15T11:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=seenidog] I have found some nice stuff at [this place](http://www.x-tremegeek.com). It is mostly overpriced IMHO but sometimes I stumble across a great item there. I like the catalog better than on-line. The best thing I ever found there was one of those “will be back at” plastic clock looking things you put on your office door, you know the white background, blue face and red hands? But this one was a real clock so if you set the hands ten minutes ahead of real time you are never late! It was like nine dollars. Note of caution, if you make a syntax error in the url you end up at a sexually oriented site not suitable for office viewing. Or at home depending on your own preferences. I know Mrs. Seenidog was not amused. :eek: [/QUOTE] Words cannot express how much I want to get [this](http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=13490) and take it down to The Loop during rush hour amongst all the yuppies and their Bluetooths and the crazy people muttering to themselves. Of course, with my luck, no one would notice. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-nerd-toys/380298.md?page=1)