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Spooktacular Halloween Tech from Verizon

Verizon has plenty of products to enhance your Halloween experience and help keep your trick-or-treaters safer.

Posted Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:32 am ET

Halloween is just 11 days away, so there’s plenty of time to scare up cool wireless tech for a fiendishly fun spooktacular celebration.

Verizon’s Cornelius Miller offers these tips:

Keeping track of your goblins – Know where your young ones are with the GizmoPal 2 wearable and app. Set boundaries and receive alerts if they wander. And if you need to get in touch with them, the GizmoPal 2 can be used for calls, too.
Ghoulish lighting – With Philips Hue Lights you can put the haunt in your house. Turn the lights on and off with your smartphone, and change to any of 16 million available colors. In addition, download the Hue Halloween app and easily pair spooky sounds with light animations. Check out this video:
Hue Halloween in manual mode: https://youtu.be/4kFG8gD_XI4
Hue Halloween in auto mode: https://youtu.be/OYT8nBxtCoY
Boo! – Leave the UE Wonderboom waterproof Bluetooth speaker in the bushes to play music or scary Halloween sounds. And with 10 hours of battery life, it’ll last the entire trick or treat time and then some!
Treat seeker alert - Be ready for each costumed character with the Canary Flex cam. This weatherproof camera connects to your Wi-Fi and lets you see live what’s going on outside.
The Phantom of the Bathroom - where’s the place your guests would least expect a prank? The bathroom of course. Using a Wemo Mini Smart Plug you can make it appear as if your guests are not alone. Whatever you plug into the outlet from a beard trimmer to a hair dryer can be turned on “magically” simply by using the included app.