The first night of Hanukkah is less than a week away, and the engineers of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, are getting ready with their unnecessarily complicated menorah lighting system, in which a Rube Goldberg device triggers a robotic arm, and nitroglycerin provides the fire.

Conan O'Brien is celebrating the Festival of Lights by stitching a bunch of poor souls together butt-to-face — thus creating the first ever Human Centipede Menorah. Watch the unveiling now.

Check out this amazingly geektastic wrapping paper — your gifts of DVDs and memorabilia shouldn't come wrapped in anything else. All we need now is a claymation Chainsaw Maid riding zombie Rudolph, and we're good to go.

Want to give your home some nerd cred for the holidays? Good news: geek decorations are better than ever — but some terrible crap is also being marketed to nerds. We rounded up the best and worst geek holiday decorations.

This holiday season, deck the halls with boughs on stardust, pass out droid dreidels, and trim the tree with alien symbiotes. Here are the best holiday decorations and ornament starting with a Godzilla menorah.