At first glance, it appears like any other innocent Halloween decoration. But put down your glass, or make any other loud sound, and this lifesize hand will come to life, crawling towards its next victim. It’s like something right out of a horror flick.
The Crawling Skeleton Hand looks creepy enough as it is. But the creepiness only increases once it starts crawling in response to any loud noise. Includes 3 AA batteries.
Summoning ghosts and spirits isn’t as tough as it used to be. In fact, with the Spooky Shadowcaster, you can fill your room with ghosts, witches and black cats with the flip of a switch! This spooky Halloween prop shines light through a stenciled half-dome, projecting the images onto your walls and ceiling for instant haunted fun. The light sits on a navy blue base and is powered by two C batteries.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has just kicked off 2005’s Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge is a government sponsored race by autonomous vehicles (i.e. robots) to help further research and technology in the field. The winner gets this year gets $2 million. Last year, no one claimed the $1 million prize as not a single team came close to finishing the 144-mile race.
Watch ordinary household lamps flicker, dim and dazzle. The Lighting FX kit tempts your lamps to respond to thunder, lightning, howling wolves, moaning ghosts, maniacal laughter, creepy organ music and other spooky sounds on the enclosed CD. Set the tone for a frightening evening for party guests and trick-or-treaters.
Position the Lighting FX close to your stereo speakers. Plug a lamp into the outlet on the back. You can intensify the effect by plugging a power strip into the back of the Lighting FX to connect multiple lamps.
Atari, now owned by Infogrames, has decided to release a version of the venerable Atari 2600 console with joysticks that look and apparently play exactly like the original. This new console looks like a scaled-down version of the original one, but doesn’t need a cartridge slot, because today, only a small chip is needed to store multiple games in the little box. And it does! 40 games, including Pitfall, Centipeded, Asteroids, and Missile Command.
Decorate your front walk or haunted house with this five-foot-diameter spider web. One hundred fifty glowing orange lights make the web easy to see and call attention to the glow-in-the-dark six-inch spider that can be placed anywhere on the web. Since it can be used indoors or out, you can stretch this lighted web across a window, porch or balcony to make the most villainous vampire shiver. The spider web lights are pretested & guaranteed to light the way for your Halloween trick-or-treaters.
The spider web features 150 lights and a 6-inch by 6-inch glow-in-the-dark spider.
Yahoo is moving their Desktop Search app into general release today. Desktop search, as quite a few of the big players have realized, is in great demand today. Both Google and Microsoft have desktop search applications as well. They are all competing so strongly on this that they even have the same styled domain names for the websites promoting these apps (desktop.google.com, desktop.msn.com and desktop.yahoo.com). Freely downloadable like its MSN and Google counterparts, the Yahoo search app is able to search e-mails, attachments, Word docs, music files, images, video, Yahoo address book entries and Yahoo Messenger archives.
Looking for an effective way to startle Halloween party guests or trick-or-treaters? Try planting some Screamer Zombies in your garden! These realistic-looking faces and hands make it look as if the undead are rising directly from your lawn or flower bed! For optimum effect, shine a light in their direction! Constructed of high-quality, flexible latex rubber; stuff them with crumpled paper to add shape.
The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) recently recommended that states issue a ban on novice drivers using any wireless communication devices. Hear, hear. This is a great move on the part of the federal government. Although the NTSB only has the power to make recommendations, its staff and board members personally lobby — often with success — for changes the board considers most important. It is certainly high time that more rigid laws are put in place to reign in the use of anything (especially cell phones) while driving. As it is, I don’t believe that most people really get out of the DMV with the necessary skills needed to drive safely & efficiently. Yep, I realize that may be a controversial view, but one that is easily held up by the statistics of auto accidents and fatalities.
The Geeks are starting our second annual Halloween Gizmo week with an icon of the Halloween and witches. After all, a Halloween party is just not a Halloween party without a witch’s cauldron with an overflowing mist!
Create a magical potion of your own with our Fogging Cauldron! Enjoy hours of fun with the overflowing spooky mist that sparks everyone’s curiosity. Magical yet harmless, this witch’s brew creates the perfect mysterious effect that is symbolic of Halloween. Simply add the cauldron solution (included), plug it into an outlet, and watch the brew magically appear.
