Jun 11
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Colin Elwell is a salesman by trade, but when you wander into his lab in Lawrence, Kan., you’ll find more than 50…
Show Me Your Nerd
Show Me Your NerdSometimes "nerdy" is a pristine collection of computers, or carefully collated boxes of keyboards. Or it's breaking open ancient viking swords to see how they're made or knowing everything about the Viewmaster. Above all, being nerdy is all about love.
Show Me Your NerdSometimes "nerdy" is a pristine collection of computers, or carefully collated boxes of keyboards. Or it's breaking open ancient viking swords to see how they're made or knowing everything about the Viewmaster. Above all, being nerdy is all about love.May 21
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One can spend hours combing through the web looking up his or her next procurement and it can get a little lonely…
Apr 23
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Modern phones are some of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment ever built, but the iPhone wasn’t developed in…
Oct 16 2019
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Like electronic music pioneers Robert Moog and Don Buchla, who came before him, Joseph Paradiso seemed destined to…
Oct 2 2019
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Luiza Figueiredo always loved puzzles—you have to if you collect so many you get the Guinness World Record for most…
Sep 25 2019
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Most of us see an airplane and think they’re cool. It might inspire us to get a pilot’s license or maybe buy a few…
Sep 18 2019
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One of the largest and coolest collections of Soviet computers in the world resides in an apartment complex in…
Sep 11 2019
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Dilish Parekh is a jeweler and government employee in Mumbai and he has the largest collection of cameras in the…
Sep 4 2019
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We’re back with a new season of Show Me Your Nerd, the show that documents the biggest nerds with the biggest…
Aug 8 2018
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The Show Me Your Nerd team is hard at work on a second season, and we want you to submit your coolest, nerdiest…
May 31 2018
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Mike Mika is a video game developer, so naturally he has a passion for video games. He modded Donkey Kong once so…
May 24 2018
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Paul Ramunni had been doing people’s taxes for 40 years and he knew it wasn’t something that made them happy. So…
May 17 2018
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Fwee Carter believes nerds can be sexy too, and he’s got an entire book (and website) devoted to images he’s taken…
May 10 2018
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Every photographer, at some point, becomes a collector too. Some photographers collect lenses worth thousands of…
May 3 2018
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Before smartphones or mobile VR there were precious few ways for your eyes to feast on a far off land. The…
Apr 19 2018
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Jeff Pringle is an Oakland-based swordsmith, so it’s no surprise he has hundreds of pre-industrial and viking-era…
Apr 5 2018
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Marc Verdiell is obsessed with clunky, vintage computers. He has over a hundred pieces in his collection, mostly…
Mar 20 2018
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Jacob Alexander loves keyboards. He has over 600 in his collection and says he emigrated to the U.S. from Canada just…