Christmas Light Hero

When your dad’s done Disney as a day job you’ll expect something special as a stocking filler, and Ric Turner delivered exactly that by hooking a Christmas light display up to Guitar Hero.  Yes, the most profligate waste of electricity since Zeus got angry now has a function (and you can be entertained by staring at them without also needing help to tie your shoes.)

Connecting a Wii with guitar up to England’s best light show since the Blitz, creates the ultimate in LED gaming and it even transmits your tune on a low power radio station so all comers can enjoy your play (or lack thereof).

2.  Hard Drive Christmas Tree

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot” isn’t for another week, which is good, because this three-quarters-of-a-terabyte tree will remember things a lot longer than you will after the eggnog.  Computer server system employee “Trigger” had to decommission seventy old hard drives, and rather than the boring “delete and destroy” he decided to devote the bulk of a month to the making the most memorable Christmas tree ever.

The result of three weeks work (and forty cents for a single extra nut), the computer based Christmas techno-tree needs no decoration.  You won’t forget this sight, especially when you realise the decoration probably knows more than you do.

3.  The Tesla Tree

Peter “TDU” lives in Australia, and when you see what he does for fun you’ll be glad he doesn’t live any closer.  He’s basically a Bond villain who turned to entertainment instead of all-domination, and is possibly the only man who can say “I tried using CDs but they started to burn” when putting up his Christmas decorations.  Behold:

Peter is the one and only artist in “Tesla Trees”, the craft of causing the air itself to break down by applying millions of volts of electricity, photographing the result, and calling it a replacement for wood.  This man uses lightning for decoration and has permanently won every “Best Xmas Display” ever.