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8-bit Menorah: Pixelated Miracle

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Hanukkah 2015 is just a few weeks away, but there’s still enough time to buy a new menorah if your old one is looking a little worn out. Being a total ’80s geek, I can think of no better way to celebrate the holiday than with this 8-bit Menorah.

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With a pixelated look from the base all the way through the blinky LED candles, it’s a great way to celebrate the tradition, and not have to worry about starting a fire.

Just don’t expect these candles to burn all night long. It runs on AAA batteries, and should provide about 30 to 50 minutes of light for each of the eight nights of Hanukkah. It’s too bad they didn’t include a way to plug it in.

Regardless, the 8-bit Menorah is pretty awesome. Head on over to ThinkGeek now, where you can grab one for just $29.99(USD).

Jurassic Hannukah: MenorasaurusRex

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The menorah that you use during Hannukah says a lot about you. Do you use a traditional menorah or something different? Why not start a new tradition and use a Menorah Rex. You can pass this fun holiday decoration down generation after generation.

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This thing is going to look awesome all lit up. The MenorasaurusRex by The Vanilla Studio is hand-made to order and made from a recycled plastic toy with metal candle holders attached. It looks like a dinosaur hunting trophy too, so why not display it year round?

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It’s only $85(USD). Totally worth it to have more dinosaurs around at this time of year.

Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah

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Happy Hanukkah to all those Craziest Gadgets readers celebrating the festival of lights starting this weekend. A few mechanical engineering students from Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) have created a Rube Goldberg machine (appropriately enough, as Rube would have celebrated the holiday) to light a Chanukah menorah in as many steps as possible. Using helium balloons, dominoes, toy cars, a bicycle tire, some nitroglycerin, and eventually a robotic arm, the team created a Chanukkah miracle of engineering as seen in the video:

Apparently that’s how Israeli geeks light the menorah. And I believe we haven’t use this spelling yet: Chanuka. Ok bases covered. Have a great holiday everyone, try not to eat too many latkes (try).

Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah