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The Tesla Christmas tree is a colorful mess

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Tesla Christmas Tree.  Designed by Peter Terren.

Remember when I said that Tesla coils were being used mainly for our entertainment these days?  I wasn’t kidding.  Artist and enthusiast Peter Terren has created his own colorful Tesla-coil enhanced Christmas tree!  He used slow exposure photography (about two minutes per shot) to capture this phenomenon in action.  He even stepped into one of the shots (see above); this highly dangerous risk probably led to one hell of an electrical shock.  Be sure to check out more shots of Terren’s creation in the gallery below; the images really are incredible.

[Via Gizmodo]

Christmas tree made from 1,000 Heineken beer bottles

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Chinese designers decided to go all out this year by constructing a Christmas tree out of 1,000 FULL Heineken beer bottles.  Yeah, that’s a lot of beer right there, just waiting to get toppled over and wasted.  Though the bright green hue of the large stature is quite impressive, the designers could have been a bit more eco-friendly if they were to use the limitless number of empty beer bottles at the ready.  Anyway, check out some close-up shots in more detail in the gallery below.  The “tree” is located in Shanghai, China.

[Via Gizmodo; Inhabitat]