Tag: CHRISTMASTREE

"This year's Christmas tree -- a three-ton, six-story-tall Engelmann spruce -- updated followers from @TrackTheTree along its route to Washington from Wyoming," reports The Hill. Yes, our country's official Christmas tree has joined Twitter. (It's also got its own blog and Facebook page.) And now, we must regretfully inform you that we quit. We quit the Internet entirely. Don't sext us; we'll ...

Marketing geniuses at Japan's Aqua Toto Gifu Aquarium have caught the attention of both the marine-life lovers and the media with a holiday display that uses a unique source of clean renewable energy -- an electric eel, otherwise known to us geeks here at Switched as Electrophorus Electricus. The aquarium placed its "E-Tree" next to tan electric eel in a tank. Inside the tank, copper wiring has ...

This year the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is going green. By green, we mean environmentally friendly, of course. The 30,000+ lights on the massive conifer have been replaced with energy sipping LEDs that have cut the tree's power consumption to about a third its normal level. In fact, the amount of electricity required by the tree has been reduced enough that the whole thing is powered ...