“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
This geek likes to travel. Road trips, long flights, or short jaunts just down the road – I take what I can get. When I can, I try to combine travel with activities and sights that make my inner fangirl squeal. Those trips are my favorites. Film and TV locations, museums, old cemeteries, and sites with urban and rural decay top my list of “places I will detour to see.” The small stuff is just as enjoyable, too. It may not be possible for me to visit the actual castle used for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, but I can usually fit in a drive to see the oldest surviving American robot in Mansfield, Ohio. If you’d like to mix some geek stops into your next trip or even into your weekend, I have plenty of suggestions.
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Finally, a product that can truly revolutionize the life of the average nerd. Supposedly, if you use the new Misoka toothbrush developed by Japanese company Yumeshokunin, you only need to brush once per day to keep your teeth clean.
The tips of the bristles are coated with a proprietary nanomineral that can make your teeth hydrophilic after normal brushing. In other words, the saliva in your mouth will stick to your teeth—making it more difficult for food and other particles to stick. Overall, that means less brushing, and better breath.
You could fork over hundreds or even thousands of dollars each year on security alarms and monitoring, but there are cheaper ways to guard your valuables at home and on the road. The solutions presented below may be unorthodox, but no less effective. In fact, at least one of the items on this list could make a burglar vomit. Can your current alarm system do that? I think not.
Dominic Wilcox has created this form fitting concept case machined from a solid block of aluminum which will offer your toothbrush way more protection than 3 cents worth of plastic deserves. It’s biased too, so there’s no room for your fancy flex heads and patterned bristles. Only conventional, boring designs will work in this case. But don’t worry, you’ll get all the excitement you need when you try to pass this thing through airport security.
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And that tenth guy took the survey in a mental hospital. Ok, he’s not really a dentist—he just calls himself a dentist. I think that was because he killed a bunch of people with a dentist drill, stole their teeth and painted them up to look like his mom. But I won’t bore you with that story.
This marvelous product doesn’t actually contain any toe jam, but those toes do a great job of holding your toothbrush on the wall.
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This Hercules Toothbrush Holder will tell your loved one that you care enough to get them a gift, but they really need to do something about the morning breath. Maybe they will be so enthralled with the cute little guy they won’t even register the insinuated insult.
If kids were splitting open your skull to store their slobbery toothbrushes, you would be pissed off too.
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Just because you aren’t into hunting doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the functional and space saving advantages offered up by a severed deer head. When you have this stag suction cupped to your mirror offering eight points of toothbrush storage and a mouth with an easily accessible tube of Colgate, you’ll understand a hunter’s true motivation.
Product Page: ($8.99)
Your bathroom will look like you turned back the clocks when you decorate with the Down On The Farm Bath Accessories. The items shown above are just four of the many available: the old fashioned water pump as a lotion dispenser, the wooden bucket tumbler, the tractor toothbrush holder and the wagon soap dish. This set will make at least one room of your house like an oasis free of any technology.
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Stick one of these spread heads on your tube of Colgate and give your kids all the thrills that come along with watching a plastic head regurgitate toothpaste night after night. But be warned, if you see your tot running to get his toothbrush next time Fluffy spits up a hairball, you can bet they’re thinking that if it comes out of an animal’s mouth, it must be minty and fresh.
Product Page: ($4.99 each)
