By Rachel Cericola
Looking for the gift that gets people talking? Consider these 12 weird, wacky gifts.

We spent the entire year ogling over home theater, lighting control, and a lot of other accoutrements inside the Electronic House. If you want to share the tech love, many of those items can be very useful, very expensive holiday gifts.

Then, there are times when you just want to get a little weird. Weird gifts can get people talking, wincing, and laughing. Of course, they can also be surprising useful.

When it comes to weird gifts, the DIY options are endless. Fortunately, so is the mass-produced mayhem. Weird sometimes means wonderful; sometimes it means crap. We’ve decided to include a little from column A and column B in our selection of Weird Holiday Tech Gifts.

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By Rachel Cericola
We scare up a few movie options, just in time for Halloween.

Forget donning a Jason or Michael Myers mask this Halloween. If you want a truly hair-raising holiday, try handing someone a pair of 3D glasses.

Currently, most 3D movie options fall into two categories: kiddie flicks and freak-shows. In other words, there should be enough scary movies available in the Blu-ray 3D format to make for one monster film festival.

Of course, most of these scary movies aren’t about ghouls and creatures of the night. Some don’t even care about the plot line. While there are a few frightening gems out there, most of the horror-themed 3D movies concentrate on a high kill count and special effects hurling at the screen.

That said, we’re guessing that most of these will have you checking the locks, letting the phone go to voicemail, and staying away from the basement—unless that’s where the home theater is located, of course.

So before you blow through that stockpile of bite-sized Snickers, consider stocking up on some of these 3D-enhanced flicks for your own fright night. Enjoy!

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By Lisa Montgomery
The ultimate sports bar for an ultimate fan.

The beauty of a sports bar—besides the awesome hot wings on the menu—is the luxury of being able to watch several games simultaneously. And let’s face it, picture-in-picture on your own set at home doesn’t cut it when you’re a hard-core fantasy football fan.

To recreate the impact and viewing enjoyment of a commercial sports bar, the owner of this renovated game room choose to have three 70-inch Sharp (LC70LE732) mounted on the front wall of his 23-by-20-foot room. “One large 130-inch TV was another option,” says David Huse of Theater Advice, Frisco, Texas, the firm hired to handle the design and installation of the electronic gear, “but the three TVs seemed more authentic.”

Each TV rang up at $3,000, which helped keep the budget in line, too. “TVs of this size are usually much more then $3K, closer to $8,000 each” says Huse. While the budget-friendly TVs have “great brightness and movement control,” says Huse, they lack ISF calibration modes and deep levels of color correction.

Selecting an affordable, good-performing 70-inch flat-panel TV was the easy part; mounting them was another story. Any wall that stretches 23 feet is never going to be completely flat, says Huse. “This one buckled so much it looked like a giant wave pool.”

To get the TVs to lay flush with the wavy surface, Huse carefully shimmed each one by using pieces of rolled cardboard. Behind each Huse attached a Control4 HC-200 Room Controller. This component allows each A/V source to be wired via Category 5 cabling directly to each TV.

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