Home Depot’s Talking Skeleton Gets Tech Upgrade
Originally published Jul 15, 2026
By Andrew Liszewski · The Verge
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Key points
- Home Depot upgrades its 12-foot-tall Halloween skeleton
- New feature allows users to speak through the skeleton’s moving mouth
- Based on technology from last year’s 6.5-foot Ultra Skelly
- Improvement aims to maintain the display's popularity
Home Depot is enhancing its 12-foot-tall Halloween skeleton, Skelly, with a mobile app that lets users control its mouth movements through speech. This upgrade builds on last year's smaller Ultra Skelly model and aims to keep the popular display relevant as spooky season approaches.
Read the original story: The Verge — by Andrew Liszewski