ThinkGeek never lets us down in the way of oddball gadgets. Just in time for the holidays is their new TannenBomb Prank Holiday Ornament. That’s right, a prank holiday ornament. This clever little globe has a bit of hidden technology contained within. While sitting in its box, or even lying out somewhere, it looks and acts just like any normal decoration. The fun begins when they hang it on their tree.

The act of placing it on a tree (or a hook) activates a trigger, which tells the device to play one of four random sounds at random intervals. At any given point of a day, people will hear a beep, mosquito tone (ultra high frequency nerve grating sound), a Christmas cricket or an elf giggle.

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$11 sounds like a reasonable price to pay for driving your friends or loved ones crazy this holiday season. Heck, it even looks like a stylish ornament, what with the zombies and robots on it. Were it not for the fact that it would bug the crap out of me, I’d hang one up on my tree.

The decorations are a real mix, from gaming icons like Mario, Link, and Mega Man, to upstarts like the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal, and they’re all made out of paper (and the sweat of effort). It’s enough to make one wary of the candy canes. Paper is not so delicious, after all.

For those brave enough to try to recreate this tree, or do a mix of your own ornaments, a number of the instructions are available on Maire’s page, and others on the cubeecraft site. Now we just need to add some of these papercraft consoles.

[Maire's deviantART page via cubeelog]

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