Author: Patra Beaulieu

Patra has a background in molecular biology and was a former writer / translator for one of Canada's major web-based entertainment news providers. She currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario and is into alpine skiing, biking, music, movies, dining, baking, traveling, spending time with family, friends and her mini goldendoodle.

Remember what a sensation Micro Scooters were when they first came out? Now the company has gotten even more creative and has come up with the Micro…

Sliced cheese is so essential for BBQ season that it deserves to be contained in a special box that looks like a black and white cow.…

As nice as the dog days of summer are, it’s still hard to swap the comforts of a La-Z-Boy recliner for a flimsy lawn chair. When you’re…

Combine the 2012 Summer Olympics and London together and what do you get? Chips! The folks in London are probably gearing up to feed chips (or fries as…

The typical garden gnome is known to be pudgy and jolly-looking, but Skel-E-Gnome Garden Statues are a rare group of gnomes that are as bony as…

You know that expression when someone says a person has “a heart of gold.” Sometimes we geeks take things so literally that we start imagining anatomical…

What’s the most important kitchen appliance? The microwave. And who’s the cutest kitty figure on the planet? Hello Kitty. Well guess what? In this world there exists a hot-pink Hello…

If you’re a big baby at heart, then maybe you should be seen wearing the Limited Edition Evian Baby T-Shirt. Babies are so money. That’s why…

Everyone’s so distracted nowadays that it’s hard to get people’s attention unless you do something drastic. Little messages on Post-Its often slip through the cracks going unnoticed, but that’s…

When you want to wear a hood but don’t necessarily want to wear your hoodie sweatshirt, maybe what you need is the DC Comics Batman Hooded…

Fans of ‘Star Trek’ and Spock will feel the need to own The Many Moods of Spock T-Shirt. Spock does have many moods, but somehow his stoic face…

There’s nothing too interesting about a USB cable charging your iPhone or iPad, but if your cable lit up like an object in “Tron” and provided…

Do you ever mix different sodas at the soda fountain, dispensing a little Orange Crush, root beer, Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke, and lemonade into the same cup? Meanwhile…

Regarding the “Twilight” saga, you probably imagined that Bella’s and Edward’s daughter Renesmee had some serious fangage on her as you were reading the book. Was it…

You probably have already seen the full-sized bobble heads of uber-geeks Sheldon and Howard on GeekAlerts, but now you’ll be thrilled to learn that you can pre-order…

With all these Wonder Woman products hitting the market again, one begins to “wonder” if she is going to make her big 21st century comeback. Rumor…