Want the best Santa Tracker and to play some fun games through Norad or Google? We’re live-blogging it for you
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and we’re getting into the festive spirit here at TechRadar! While it’s still fairly early for Santa to make moves, we’ve got a direct line to his workshop and are here to bring you the latest festive updates as we approach the holiday.
St Nick will be departing on his trip around the globe in just a few hours, starting at the International Date Line on December 24 and moving through the South Pacific, then across to New Zealand and Australia, followed by Asia, Africa, Europe, North Amerca and lastly Central and South America. We’ll be tracking all of his movements around the globe live using the two most popular trackers, NORAD and Google, we’ll be bringing you live updates as St Nick makes his way around the globe.
In keeping with the ‘AI everywhere’ theme of 2023, we’ve also asked Midjourney to create some images of the big man himself as he travels around the world celebrating various regional traditions. They’re only slightly cursed.
Fun fact: Santa tracking as a tradition is almost 70 years old, but it all started as a happy accident in Christmas 1955. Legend has it a Sears catalog accidentally printed the Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center’s phone number instead of a Santa hotline in Christmas 1955 and began to receive calls from children hoping to speak to Klaus himself.
The tradition of watching where Santa crosses the globe began in 1955 when, legend has it, a child mistakenly called Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center after a misprint in a Sears catalog for a number to call to speak to Santa.
