Gizmodo: masks

The Great Gizmodo Halloween Roundup

Chris Jacob — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Since I'm feeling festive evening, I thought I would leave you with some of our Halloween posts. OK, really I just can't pass up a chance to put up these masks of Chen and Blam again. Happy Halloween everyone!

• This Is Why You Shouldn't Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV
• Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating
• Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are Only In Your Head
• Twelve Beautiful Jack-o'-Lanterns
• Ghostbuster Proton Pack Uses Real Lasers, Can Probably Hunt Real Ghosts
• 10 Of Your Geekiest Halloween Costumes
• A Spider-Bot Pumpkin Is the Scariest Way To Dispense Candy On Halloween
• Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself
• The iMac Cylon Mask Is Both Trick and Treat
• "Working" Apple iPhone Costumes Just Plain Win
• Craigslist Ad By A Horrid Excuse for a Human Being
• Sword Illuminates a Pumpkin by Impaling It
• Ideas for Tech-Themed Halloween Pumpkins
• 10 Robot Halloween Pumpkins Provide Artistic Inspiration
• Scare the Crap Out of Trick-or-Treaters With a Rovin' Pumpkin
• Ruin Halloween For Everyone by Going as Brian Lam or Jason Chen

And please, be safe!

Ruin Halloween For Everyone by Going as Brian Lam or Jason Chen

Adam Frucci — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Someone has made a collection of masks of bloggers for Halloween, and our own Lam and Chen are included. Finally, Halloween is legitimately terrifying. [CostumePop via The Daily What]

The Comfort Respirator

Jason Chen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:30:00 EDT

This respirator mask design by Elijah Stillson is meant to have comfort AND function, ensuring that when a biological attack does hit, you won't even notice that you're wearing a mask. You will notice the dead bodies, however. [Yanko Design]

Protect Yourself Against the Swine Flu, With Style

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:42:02 EDT

The WHO has raised the Swine Flu—which you can follow in this map or through Twitter—to alert level 5, which means a pandemic is imminent. Not funny. Some people, however, are having fun.

In Mexico everyone is wearing masks. People are getting bored of wearing the same thing, so they have started to decorate them in all kinds of styles. As you can see, many of them show their always ironic look at death and fascination with los muertos.

My favorites, however, are the colorful masks designed by Japanese artist Yoriko Yoshida. Visit Yoriko's page for more designs. [Yoriko Yashida via Pink Tentacle and Daily Telegraph]

Pore-Tightening Mask Allows Couples to Fight Crime Together

Erica Ho — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:27:18 EST

These Japanese masks don't only tighten and make your pores microscopic, they also turn it into a très romantic activity with your partner. Creepily reminscent of Jason in Friday the 13th, they provide ample anonymity for psychotic, law-breaking fun as well. Instead of running around with a chainsaw though, robbing a bank might just be more useful because financial bankruptcy is just no fun. Only problem with these masks is you don't really know what to tell the cops about the person behind the pink mask, holding up the bank teller in San Francisco, do you? [TOKYO MANGO]

Buy Your Own Face for $299, Or Someone Else's...

Mark Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:20:00 EST

Your face has worked out so far, but in the age of exploding laptop batteries and botched nose jobs, we can all use a spare. ThatsMyFace is a service that will create anything from a life-sized mask ($200) to a full 3D sculpture of your head ($2,000) with just two 2D images from you.

The service appears to first 3Dize your pictures by hand, then use 3D printing technology for the physical production model. At least in this clip, the result is scarily realistic, even if a bit dead looking. Then again, with the lights turned low enough, it may be just enough to test whether or not your spouse would cheat on you for Josh Hartnett. (Saving you the money, we'll just let you know that the answer is yes...be they your wife or husband.) [ThatsMyFace via TechCrunch]

Best Use of an LED Yet (Eating Children)

Mark Wilson — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Is it still called a Halloween costume if you wear it all year long? Regardless, this anglerfish mask utilizes an LED to entertain friends, distracting them before it opens wide and engulfs their head a la mutant symbiote. OK, we might have presented that explanation without complete factual accuracy. There are actually a number of LEDs that light up before the mask bites your friends' heads off. So it looks pretty cool in the dark:

Spooky. [instructables via MAKE]

DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams

Benny Goldman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:50:00 EDT

There's a Lucid Dream Machine sleeping mask on Instructables that pulses LEDs in your eyelids four hours after you fall asleep, waking you up just enough to notice your dreams and control their outcomes. The mask requires a fair bit of soldering and programming experience, so it isn't for DIY luddites like me. Which is good, because my sleep is too precious and my dreams are too weird to want one of these anyway. [Instructables via Make]

Kiss Mask Makes Smooching Mandatory

Jason Chen — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:00:22 EDT

We're not sure what this art project from 1999 is designed to say, but it's a kissing mask that locks two girls into kissing mode when worn. During the exhibition, there was a microphone sewn into the connecting tube that recorded the "conversation, breathing and kissing that occurs inside," which was then burned onto CD as some kinda voyeuristic soundtrack. Weird, yet arousing. [JillMagid via Fleshbot]

LED Mask Lets You Control Your Dreams

Louis Ramirez — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:34:18 EDT

How many times have you had a dream you wish you could've changed? For me, that happens at least twice a month. Enter the Cerebrex dream mask. The idea is pretty simple.

The mask has built-in LEDs that blink at night to remind your sleeping self that you're in fact dreaming. Supposedly, that "awareness" is what lets you control your dream. Will it work, probably not. And with its $200 starting price, I wouldn't recommend you try one either. – Louis Ramirez

Product Page [via Gadget Lab]

Thanko USB-Powered Air Purifier Mask Filters Allergens, Dignity

Gizloco — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:10:15 EST

Yes, Thanko makes weird stuff, we know. But a USB-powered air purifier mask? What kind of market are they shooting for with this? Sure, the silicon mask may purify air of allergens, but at what cost? I don't know, is mask wearing a thing over there? Just look at the girl's reaction in the third panel—terrifying! I'd sooner move to a place with better air quality than waste $20 on this. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [Thanko via Newlaunches.com]

Oceanic SCUBA Mask with Integrated Head-Up Display

Charlie White — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:09:22 EDT

Here's a great idea for SCUBA divers: a mask with a tiny LCD panel that shows your depth, time you've been under the water and cylinder pressure. The transmitter gathers the data at the regulator and sends it to this mini display mounted right where you need it.

Sometimes if you're diving really deep it might be too dark or murky to see those vital statistics. It's probably just as useful as the excellent head-up display (HUD) on the Corvette, and if the concept works well enough at 180mph, it'll certainly suffice while loitering a few hundred feet under the sea, not far from Davy Jones Locker. Take it with you on your trip to the Bahamas this winter. – Charlie White

Product Page [Oceanic, via OhGizmo]

PhotogenicMasks: Become A Convincing Girl Quickly And Easily

Jason Chen — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:53:14 EDT

Once in a while we stumble across something that's just self explanatory.

PhotogenicMasks have been created for anyone who desires to become a girl quickly and easily.

To create a "photogenic," attractive look as far as is possible

A mask that is quick/easy/safe to put on/take off

Anytime

Anywhere

For anybody who wants to be a girl.

Yes, you can go back to being yourself quickly, and at anytime or place.

We just ordered 8. – Jason Chen

Photogenic Mask [via Digg]