Week in Geek #51, 2011

Get a potato, hook it up to the Portal 2 PotatOS Science Kit, and be prepared to be educated and entertained. The kit works similarly to the Potato Clock, where you don’t need any batteries to power it up. Instead, these kits harness the energy […]

If you enjoy tea made from loose tea leaves, that doesn’t mean you are stuck using a boring teaball. You can steep you tea in style, geek-style, with the Tea Rex Dinosaur Shaped Tea Infuser. This tyrannosaurus rex shaped tea infuser stands about 2.5 inches […]

Tea has entered a new hipper realm where it’s not strictly for grandmas and crumpets anymore. With this new tea revolution comes funky cool tea infusers to give dried leaves and tips some much needed flair. The Tea Leaves Tea Infuser is just one of the many new steepers out […]

Add some holiday spirit to your teatime with this Candy Cane Tea Infuser. Made of stainless steel, shaped like a candy cane, and painted with white and red stripes, this tea infuser is the ideal way to make tea during Christmastime. Just open the candy […]

Tea is a favorite drink of millions of people around the world. It’s healthy, great tasting and comes in a vast variety of flavors. GeekAlerts writers have been hooked on tea for a while now, ever since “The Coffee Incident” and that’s why we’ve shown […]

Do you like your tea on the Dark Side? Now you can steep your tea like a Sith Lord from a galaxy far, far away with the Star Wars Death Star Tea Infuser. Steep your tea with the Death Star while you’re contemplating your next plan […]

If you’ve ever watched Mythbusters, you’ve probably longed to do some of the same experiments they do on the show. Now you can with MythBusters Science Kits. These educational science kits are obviously great fun, for kids and adults, but the really cool thing is […]

If you had tons of extra cash, you’d probably have an iPhone 5. Yet just because you’re hanging on to your iPhone 4/4s for a while longer doesn’t mean you are stuck with the same old, same old. Refresh your phone with a new case […]

These Zombie Back Scratchers make me think of those scenes in horror flicks where a zombie or some sort of monster creeps up to the person unknowingly and acts like a person. You know, like when the main character asks for the popcorn, a zombie […]

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GeekAlerts has shown you some pretty cool tea infusers in the past (Tea-Rex, Candy Cane, and the Tea Duckie), but sometimes you just want something quick and simple. That’s where the Teastick Tea Infuser will come in handy. Made from stainless steel with a food-safe […]

This past week there were dozens of awesome products. For Star Trek fans, the biggest highlights were probably the Star Trek Starfleet iPhone 4 cases and the Star Trek cookbook. Outdoorsmen has a number of cool gadgets to check out, such as the Boker credit […]