Animated Space Invaders welcome mat

Firebox is selling this outdoor welcome mat with motion-sensing, light-up LED Space Invaders that blink back and forth when visitors approach. Link (via IZ Reloaded)

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motion-sensing, light-up LED Space Invaders that blink back and forth -

would be very cool, but it’s more like a line of non animated space invaders being lit up in sequence.

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Enochrewt

I have two words for this thing: “Cool” and “Stolen”. I can’t see this hanging around in your average suburban neighborhood, much less my downtown one.