In a stellar series of simple animations, you can watch some of the world’s most famous scientific minds execute video game moves based on their areas of discovery and expertise. Above, you can see Hawking’s special move: Wormhole. Below, Einstein dishes out some Special Relativity.

Darwin can dazzle you with his Evolution (above), then follow it up with a spin of Natural Selection (below).

Other key characters in this creative series include Marie Curie (below) with her Plutonium Punch, but also Pythagoras, who can hit you with his Pythagorean Theorem (a triangle formed by jumping up and angling back down). Newton packs Gravity and Tesla, of course, a Coil. All that remains, really, is for someone to turn this ingenious idea into an actual game – players would line up for a shot at this.

From creator Diego Sanches: “Seven famous scientists whose significant discoveries and inventions changed the world have been given superpowers based on their contributions to the field … including Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein,  Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie and Pythagoras as part of the ‘science combat’ series for Brazilian publication Superinteressante magazine. The playable figures each have ‘basic’ and ‘special’ attacks, with the latter linking to his or her discovery in the field of chemistry, medicine, mathematics or physics.” Click here to see more in the series.

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In an informal and spontaneous contest to see who could share the geekiest key holder from their office or coworking space, a series of Redditors (on /r/geek) submitted a great series of photos featuring clever (and useful) key storage systems – you can ignore the vote count, though, and pick your own favorite, as each has features to recommend it (though a few may have bugs as well).

First and by far the most popular, the top-voted design features ethernet cables looped and plugged into a 5-slot box. While more of an aesthetically-inspired setup and not technically active as such, commenters suggested modding the device to register which keys are in place at any given time (via zedpee, who was ‘gilded (given Reddit Gold) for his efforts).

The Keyboard 2.0, meanwhile, actually works not only to tell you whether keys are plugged in but also has a locator system that lets you find your keys when you misplace them around the office – its plug-and-play interface also looks somewhat more robus, using traditional snap-in key ring connectors rather than breakable plastic (via h0uz3_).

Finally, no geek collection would be complete without something using LEGO, perhaps referencing Star Wars and/or including a comic book superhero, so this last submission conveniently does all three, with detachable blocks that let you snap in your key chain easily and without requiring much extra pocket space (via Spaz_Chicken).

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Hair dryers provide the driving force behind this mesmerizing set of simple-but-beautiful installation art projects by Antoine Terrieux, a magician and juggler with an eye for repurposing everyday objects.

Presented last year at the Maison Des Jonglages (House of Juggling) in La Courneuve, France, this series of kinetic pieces shows how simple materials can create experiential art that lasts effectively forever. Paper airplanes circle over a series of blowers in one scene, a record spins and bounces endlessly in another while a string dances in the air in yet another.

His performances, light on drama and heavy on humor, incorporate similar elements, in illustrated in one of his stage shows, segments of which are shown above. The outfits alone make the video worth watching, so at least skip through some scenes to see for yourself!

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Turn up the volume and ignore coworker complaints: you have to hear as well as see this phenomenon in action – they start out in sync but end up all over their magnetized performance surface.

Created by Ugoita T., magnets on the feet of these ordinary-looking gold paper cranes bring them to life – that and the technology buried in the box below that animate them first in unison, as a flock, then individually as one in particular starts tearing up the proverbial dance floor.

And if you liked that strange little performance, you can check out some of his other videos as well, like this 8bit harmonica spiel (to a set of tunes any good geek will recognize quickly).

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When you want to make a big impression, sending severed body parts to prospective clients is a pretty effective move. Photographer Justin Poulsen made 50 ultra-lifelike silicone “thumb” drives and sent them out to prospective clients.

The promotional thumb drives went out pre-loaded with Poulsen’s promotional material as well as a fun animation of “loading thumbs”: a swirling circle of thumbs resembling Apple’s “loading” graphic.

When the drives are plugged into a computer, they genuinely look like real human digits. Each was handmade and every one is unique, and they all feature realistically colored bloody stumps, cuticles, and thumbnails.

The short video above shows the process the photographer used to create these creepy but decidedly memorable portfolios of his work. If you’re so inclined and have the patience to take on a project like this, it’s totally replicable at home – just remember to be careful where you leave your severed thumb lying around.

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