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Angry Birds Christmas Lights Are Amazing

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1:45PM December 20, 2011 | Nick Broughall

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! More »


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

9:00AM December 26, 2010 | Casey Chan

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. More »


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Leave Your Christmas Lights Up Forever

4:20PM December 23, 2010 | Adrian Covert

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”. More »


Entertainment

The 10 Best Musical Christmas Light Houses Ever

1:45PM December 21, 2010 | Sarah Prial

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! More »


All Of These Lights Are At Your Command

3:00PM December 16, 2010 | Adrian Covert

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. More »


Gaming

Another Year, Another Video Game Made With Christmas Lights

3:20PM December 14, 2010 | Adrian Covert

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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. More »


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

12:00PM December 12, 2010 | Casey Chan

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. More »


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

5:00PM December 8, 2010 | Adrian Covert

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* More »


The Most Spectacular Christmas Trees, Compared

3:00AM December 1, 2010 | Rachel Swaby

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. More »


Science

This Tesla Coil Christmas Tree Could Kill You

1:47PM December 22, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

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. More »