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This remote control spider - tarantula to be specific, is going to make the perfect Halloween prank. Hide yourself out of sight and scurry the tarantula across the floor in the direction of party goers or trick-or-treaters.

The tarantula can move forwards, backwards, and even rotates 360°. The spider’s legs each move independently and it’s eyes light up. It isn’t only arachnophobes who are going to be freaked out by this thing.

Check price and availability at Hammacher Schlemmer.

“It has a hairy exterior, similar to the urticating hairs that cover a tarantula’s abdomen and serve as defense mechanisms against predators,..Remote requires two AA batteries and tarantula requires two AAA batteries. Ages 6 and up.”

Have the most frightful house on the block this Halloween with the help of the Webcaster Gun. It may look hard but this handheld device attaches easily to a 90 PSI air compressor, and then all you have to do is point and shoot for authentic, spooky, Halloween cobwebs.

One you’ve created your Halloween cobweb it will conform and drape over whatever object you’ve shot at so the cobweb looks realistic and not stuck-on. The cobwebs appear as transparent white until a black light is shone on them and then they glow a haunting blue.

Check price and availability at Brookstone.

“Insert a Webcaster Stick, point and shoot and create extraordinary, room-filling cobwebs for Halloween. Shine a black light, and the webs will glow blue for even more spooky fun! No-hassle clean up. UL-listed. Comes with 6 Webcaster Sticks.”

This desktop USB Christmas Tree stands 9.5″ tall, pretty tall as far as desktop Christmas trees go.

Check price and availability at Perpetual Kid.

The tree comes with a star on top and LEDs that create a multi-colored light show.

These lights have an integrated circuit that regulates electricity when neighboring bulbs burn out or are removed. Up to 10 lights in a strand of 50 can be burnt out or removed before this strand of lights will go out.

The circuit stays cool, which means bulbs will not overheat adjacent lights that carry more power when bulbs are removed.

You can buy the Never Fail Christmas Lights at Hammacher Schlemmer.

“Each circuit is tested and rated for 5,000 hours of use, and three strands may be connected together. Strands include 100 lights each. Specify Clear of Multi-Colored sets. Set of two strands. (2 1/2 lbs.)”

This is the best innovation in Christmas decorations since those icicle lights that everyone has. No more tangled, mangled, frustrating, absolutely infuriating strings of lights anymore.

The 5 Ft Highland Light Changer Tree has a slim profile, so it can fit in smaller rooms, and is pre lit with 400 clear and 400 multi colored lights. Now here’s the innovative part, at the touch of a button, you can alternate the lights from clear to multi-color, as well as make them twinkle, or flash and fade in a cascade.

The Santa’s Slide Show Ornament is a digital photo frame that lets you hang a digital “photo album”on your Christmas tree, or set the ornament in its table-top stand.

The ornament comes with software and a USB cord so you can easily upload 50+ pictures from your PC onto the ornament. The ornament is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
This ornament will make a great gift for grandparents preloaded with pictures.

You can buy the Santa Slide Show Ornament at FirstStreet.

“This digital photo ornament stores over 50 of your favorite pictures - and it even plays slide shows! It’s very easy to upload photos from your PC to the ornament using the included USB cord and software. Once the images are uploaded you can enjoy each one individually, or as part of a slideshow. The uploaded digital photographs are displayed clearly on a 1.5 inch, bright, color LCD screen for all to enjoy.”

This beautiful, animated music box plays 25 Christmas carols including: Deck the Halls, Silent Night, and O Holy Night. It also plays and 25 classic songs like: Danny Boy, The Entertainer, and Alexanders Rag Time Band in accompaniment with figures in an animated diorama in the base.

The figures are hand painted, and skate around a band playing under a gazebo in a winter scene. There are three Christmas trees have with colored LED lights that give the scene a warm winter glow.

You can buy the Animated Victorian Concertina at Hammacher Schlemmer.

“Five brass bells are tuned to separate notes that chime in harmony with the metallic timbre of notes produced by the traditional music box cylinder-and-peg system. All metal surfaces are polished to a mirror finish, and the mahogany box is coated in a high-gloss lacquer that will retain its luster for years. With volume control and song selection dials.”

Just plug this USB Mini Lava Lamp into your USB port and get a little desktop ambiance.

This little Lava Lamp is filled with clear “lava” and glitter flakes, but it also comes in clear, blue, pink, purple. It measures 5.8″ tall x 1.7″ wide.

You can buy the USB Mini Lava Lamp at ThinkGeek.

“The USB Mini Lava Lamp is an authentic Original Lava Brand® product and comes with a single small lightbulb. It stands about 6″ tall and connects using a coiled USB cable that stretches to about 4 feet.”

This jolly, outdoor snowman makes realistic snowflakes that magically come out of his upturned top hat, which float up to 20′ away.

You can control the snowfall with a wireless remote which means that you can turn the snowman on as Holiday guests are arriving letting them have a White Christmas no matter the weather.

You can buy the Snow Flurry Generating Snowman at Hammacher Schlemmer.

“Its patented snow solution is turned into evaporate snow by a quiet fan that works in cold or warm weather. Includes four bottles of snow making solution that each provide five hours of snow making (snow evaporates in 90 seconds), and leaves no residue. Made of durable polyethylene with a nylon cover, the snowman plugs into AC. 29″ H x 18″ Diam. (16 lbs.)”