From lifelike animatronics and dazzling digital light shows to immersive sound effects, technology is transforming the way we celebrate Halloween. What once required a theme park’s budget and technical expertise is increasingly finding its way into our neighborhoods and homes!
This week on Tech Wednesday, Bill Sikkens explores the technology behind today’s Halloween attractions and how homeowners are creating increasingly sophisticated spooky experiences.
We’ll also look ahead to this Saturday’s special Halloween edition of User Friendly 2.0, where we’ll dive deeper into the technology powering modern Halloween displays, along with some exciting new family-friendly online activities for 2026.
Whether you’re a Halloween enthusiast, a technology hobbyist, or simply curious about how those incredible neighborhood displays work, there’s something here for everyone.
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Published: October 28, 2026
Transcript
this is Bill Sikkens, host of User
Speaker:Friendly 2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer with this week's Tech Wednesday.
Speaker:Halloween is just about upon us.
Speaker:we are going to see Halloween:Speaker:And there is a lot of technology that's out there with light shows
Speaker:and everything else that is very unique to our modern times.
Speaker:This week on User
Speaker:Friendly 2.0, we're going to be talking about some of the technology behind this,
Speaker:some of the different things you can do that
Speaker:bring things like animatronics, digital light shows, audio presentations,
Speaker:and things that were not so long ago part of a theme park to your own home.
Speaker:There's some great things to check out, and there's some things to do online
Speaker:ily safe that are also new to:Speaker:So happy Halloween everybody!
Speaker:Please join us this Saturday here on User Friendly 2.0
Speaker:to check out what the technology is that we're seeing for Halloween.
Speaker:And you can always check out User Friendly at UserFriendly.SHow
Speaker:or TechWed.show, or from your smart speaker.
Speaker:Just click on our Flash Briefing.
