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Interview With the Guitar Hero Christmas Lights Guys (With Bonus Videos)

We just talked to the two guys responsible for the Guitar Hero Office Christmas Light Extravaganza and asked them to elaborate on the process of creating such a badass light show. The two guys, Kyle and Colin Bryson, have been using equipment from National Instruments to make automated light shows already, and just took it to another level with the Frets on Fire (the PC Guitar Hero) integration. Check out the full interview and bonus video (playing Through the Fire and Flames, the hardest GH3 song) after the jump. More »

4:41 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Jason Chen
2,732 views, 3 comments

Latest by Khamel: the original post on this story introduced me to frets on fire. i am fine with my old xbox (xbmc and madden '08 are all i need) but i really wanted to play guitar hero. if i hadn't read this more »

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Happy Holidays From Your Friends at Giz

Happy holidays, ladies and dudes. Thank you for reading. Because if it wasn't for you, we'd all be working at Best Buy. I'm hanging out in this '70s-styled Tahoe cabin with Lisa, my brother Jon and Ruby the Dog. And I sang a song for you while Jon played the ukelele. The rest of the Giz staff? They're all over the world wishing you a merry Xmas too. [Image above made with the cool Mac App SantaSnaps]

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2:01 PM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Brian Lam
5,367 views, 36 comments

Latest by tgb: I have tried to use yeagtd and you need yaml. Do you know of a cygwin port of yaml so I can try it on a windows machine? more »

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Why Tech Holiday Gift Guides Are Dumb

I've always been resistant, as an editor, to the idea of a Xmas gift guide. That's because they're a bit cliche; but today, I realized the very practical reason why I don't like them. You have to be crazy to try to shop for a gadget addict by using one of these lists. More »

1:59 PM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Brian Lam
2,684 views, 11 comments

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Guitar Hero + Office Christmas Lights = Crazy Ridiculous

One of the developers at NI (we think this is National Instruments) took a guitar hero guitar, a copy of Frets on Fire (the open source PC version of Guitar Hero) and the office Christmas lights and rigged the three up to a cacophonous symphony of light and sound. More »

6:45 PM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Jason Chen
6,652 views, 17 comments

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Avoid Getting Screwed by Post-Holiday Clearance Deals

About.com has a good feature about what to look for when determining if those after-Xmas deals are worth buying. Overstock clearance deals and soon-to-be clearance price slashing are considered the best and safest for consumers because the product is expected to work properly. Open box deals and display products receive a red flag, because they could be missing parts, an expiring warranty or be older than you think. [About]

7:00 PM on Sun Dec 23 2007
By Adrian Covert
6,524 views, 7 comments

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Baby Jesus: Now With GPS Super Powers!

The Christianity 2.0 movement continues in South Florida, where the town of Bal Harbour received a GPS-equipped Baby Jesus statue to replace a previously stolen Baby Jesus staute. A Cincinnati lawyer donated the statue after hearing about the theft in early December. More »

5:30 PM on Sun Dec 23 2007
By Adrian Covert
3,491 views, 24 comments

geek christmas

Italian Guy Plays Jingle Bells on Graphics Card

This week we have seen the Guyzmodos' versions of seasonal hawtness—namely girls wearing fetching (and highly flammable) red and white nylon-n-fluff combo outfits. Well, Girlmodo is striking back as only it can. A cute, fully clothed geek, tastefully clad in the obligatory black T-shirt, playing Jingle Bells on a graphics card. Merrrrrry Chreeeeestmas! [YouTube via The Inquirer]

8:22 AM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Addy Dugdale
3,443 views, 28 comments

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Solar-Powered Fairy Lights Make Your Christmas Cheap and Green

We've seen solar-powered LED ski suits and interactive solar-powered roof tiles and now you can add that Christmassy touch to your garden with these solar-powered fairy lights.They feature 50 bright white LEDs, and charge automatically during the day to give you around nine hours of light at night. They will set you back $29.95, which is a little steep, but the bulbs will last 10,000 hours, which is enough for several years' fairy-lit evenings. Praying for sun around Christmastime will have never felt so normal. – Kit Eaton
[Hammacher Schlemmer via Oh Gizmo]

7:34 AM on Thu Dec 20 2007
2,894 views, 13 comments

Latest by Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer: @AddyDugdale: Wait til it's finished and it takes pride of place in the bedroom somewhere. more »

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Sorting the 5,195 Pieces of the Millennium Falcon Gives Strange Pleasure, Back Pain

If the first time you saw all those bags you thought the LEGO Millennium Falcon was big, it's not big. It's HUGE. Like some of you asked for, I spent four hours and nine minutes sorting all the pieces out to make the construction easier. The condensed video shows the complexity and giganormous size of this LEGO set. And in the process, I discovered many things:
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11:20 AM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Jesus Diaz
62,656 views, 97 comments

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Pajama Warmer Pouch Warms Up Your Winterwear

Our esteemed commentator OMG!!! Ponies!!! already knows what he's getting from his girlfriend on the Chrismukkah gift front, so this pajama warmer goes out to you, Sir. Stuff your PJs (or whatever it is you want to warm up) in this electric pouch and it's toasted gonads before you can say "Bloody Norah, that hurts." $34.95 from the Solutions catalog. [Solutions via 7Gadgets]

7:00 AM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Addy Dugdale
1,613 views, 17 comments

lego millennium falcon, the video teaser

The Construction of the LEGO Millennium Falcon Part I: the Unboxing and the Licking

We got the LEGO Ultimate Collector's Millenium Falcon and here's a video of me getting all dorky and excited about this awesome 24-pound, 5,159-block LEGO masterpiece. This is just a teaser of what's coming later this week: the time-lapse video of its construction by only one single dork, and the review (and in case there are still any doubts about it, this is the most amazing LEGO set—and to me, the best toy—Imperial Santa can get you this holiday season.) [LEGO] More »

7:30 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Jesus Diaz
61,711 views, 56 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: @jesusdiaz: Please, that's just a first try, after making sure I had a completely free weekend to devote to this. Go to a LEGO convention sometime next year and you're liable to see a group of people attempting a speed more »

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Addy's Best Christmas Gadget Ever

A couple of weeks back, our Dear Leader Blam sent round an email asking the team what we wanted for Christmas. So I thought. And I thought. And all I could come up with was this:

• A new sofa cover
• A cute, copper-colored snakeskin clutch—that's a handbag, not something found on a car—by Luella
• A pile of new books (or just an Amazon gift certificate, actually)
• Some fabulously sexy piece of art to hang on the wall

ZOMG—no gadgets!?!!?? came Blam's astonished reply. Feckity feck, I muttered, my secret is out. So I backpedalled: More »

9:30 AM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By Addy Dugdale
19,494 views, 55 comments

Latest by J.T.: Wow, Ad, judging from your excellent article and its host of comments, it would seem we've finally uncovered the surprising underbelly of the Giz network... we're actually human. I'm shocked. Are you shocked? It's quite a pleasant surprise what with the more »

christmas stupidity

Man Lives in Giant Snowglobe for 78.5 Hours, Sets World Record

Snowglobe Boy, aka 24-year-old Ben Eckerson, has spent over 3 days living in a giant snowglobe as an advertising stunt for the advertising firm he works for. And though I can't imagine he had much competition, Eckerson also managed to set a world record for most time spent in a giant snowglobe. More »

4:15 PM on Sat Dec 15 2007
By Adrian Covert
6,513 views, 31 comments

Latest by Shabba: If a crane doesn't pick him up and shake him every 30 minutes he shouldn't get the record. I am just sayin' more »

these aren't christmas

Lightning Round: LED Rain Christmas Lights

The Gadget: LED Christmas Lights with Decorative Rain Light, feature 40 muti-color LEDs, various effects / speeds, clear wiring, and control box for selecting effect settings. What makes these lights different is the "Rainy" effect, that is produced by a clear bubbled end cap on each LED.

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8:20 PM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Christopher Mascari
13,687 views, 21 comments

hong kong phooey

Breakdancing Robots Bring Joy, Mirth, Wham! to Hong Kong Mall

This is how one Hong Kong mall welcomes in Christmas: getting a bunch of golden robots to bust a move for distinctly underwhelmed shoppers. Well, wouldn't you be, if you had to listen to a 20-year old Wham! song, bleep versions of Jingle Bells and the like? [Raw Video via Spluch] More »

5:15 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Addy Dugdale
2,601 views, 10 comments

christmas lights

Web-Controllable Holiday Lights Setup is Christmas Spirit Overload

It's the Christmas season, so you know what that means: completely insane, over-the-top lighting displays. Yes, they get crazier every year as front-yard hobbyists figure out how to put more and more tech into their shows to make them even more impressive. One of my personal favorites is "Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease," so named because they exist as a fundraiser for Celiac disease research and because you can actually control the entire setup via the Internet. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Adam Frucci
5,553 views, 20 comments

Latest by GizFanAlpha: @ToddBradley:Yeah, MOST OF THEM. What about the rest, huh? more »

happy pac-mas

Pac-Man Xmas Tree Offers 8-bit Holiday Cheer

This electronic Christmas tree fashioned in the likeness of a Pac-Man map, complete with Pac Man, power pellets and ghosts, shows the Spanish know what they're doing when it comes to the holidays. Currently in downtown Madrid, the tree not only features all the elements of the game, but Pac-Man and his nemeses are partially animated, shifting back and forth in place. More »

9:29 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Adrian Covert
4,728 views, 16 comments

xmas ripoff

Recycled Xmas Decorations — May All Your Christmases Be Geek

Are these the perfect tree decorations for green geeks? Possibly. Made from recycled CDs and circuit boards, they are heinously expensive (around $6 for a circuit-board dangler, $9 for the CD version. Or you can get a set of three for $16 or $21 respectively. Or you can not bother. More »

6:50 AM on Fri Nov 30 2007
By Addy Dugdale
2,328 views, 8 comments

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