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Angry Birds Christmas Lights Are Amazing

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Christmas time means different things to different people, but to me it means amazing homemade light shows. Like this Angry Birds home lighting display, which not only looks amazing, but is playable from your car in the street!


December 26, 2010
Geek Out

Why Do All The Christmas Lights Go Out When Only One Bulb Blows?

If you’ve dabbled in Christmas decorations with traditional Christmas lights, you’ll know that when one bulb blows, the entire line goes out with it. Why is that? Because of how the manufacturers wire them.


December 23, 2010
Geek Out

Leave Your Christmas Lights Up Forever

If you’re too lazy to spend a few hours each year dealing with Christmas lights, you can shell out a few hundred dollars for the LiteLocker, which sit under your home’s gutters, hiding said lights during the “offseason”.


December 21, 2010
Entertainment

The 10 Best Musical Christmas Light Houses Ever

You may have thought you had the best Christmas lights in town, but unless you coordinated it to music, you’re wrong. From High School Musical to Gustav Holst to death metal, these houses have you beat. Better luck next year!


December 16, 2010

All Of These Lights Are At Your Command

Have you ever wanted to control 85 colour-changing LED lights on the fly with the flick of a wrist? Ever wanted a custom soundtrack to go with that as well. If you live in Lima, Peru, it’s your lucky day.


December 14, 2010
Gaming

Another Year, Another Video Game Made With Christmas Lights

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Out to prove that last year’s Guitar Hero-style game made from Christmas lights was no fluke, Ric Turner is back again with Snowball Blaster, an arcade style game where you’re tasked with helping Santa Claus avoid getting hit.


December 12, 2010

It Costs $US82,000 To Light The One Million Christmas Lights At This House

The Faucher Family in Delaware have been building extravagant Christmas lights setups for 25 years now. How extravagant? They use 1,000,000 lights. So how much does it cost them to run the lights for a month? $US82,320. Gulp.


December 8, 2010

At Last, Retailers Have Completed The Final Step In Co-Opting Christmas Entirely

Rejoice, cash strapped minions, REJOICE! Bow down to this finely-crafted idol, which shall forever remind you your duty to spend, spend, SPEND during the month of December! If you don’t, you’ll be doomed to a lifetime of fiscal responsibility! *Shudders*


December 1, 2010

The Most Spectacular Christmas Trees, Compared

Today, Rockefeller Center switches on its towering holiday gift to New York: a 22.5m spruce draped with 30,000 lights and 8km of wire. But New York’s tree is not actually the biggest or the brightest on the block.


December 22, 2009
Science

This Tesla Coil Christmas Tree Could Kill You

I hope Santa’s careful around Peter Terren’s Christmas tree, because the thing is a Tesla coil with some colour filters set up to make all the sparks, zaps and electric arcs look oh-so-pretty and oh-so-deceptively harmless.