Halloween

LED baby costume toddles into our hearts

This LED baby costume is possibly the most amazing thing we’ve ever seen. It’s terrifying… and yet completely adorable. Look how her little LED legs scamper! Created by Dopplerizer and dropped onto Reddit here’s a little backstory from the inventor: Quick preview of the LED light suit I made for my daughter. She is 22…

Shooting Challenge: Jack-O-Lanters

Halloween is upon us, which means all of us must face two truths: 1.) Yes, you are too old to dress up in a sheet to score free candy. 2.) Luckily, you’ll never, ever age out of carving Jack-O-Lanterns. The Challenge Take a photo of a Jack-O-Lantern. The Method In my Google-based quest for the…

Turn Your Quadcopter Into the Best Halloween Decoration Ever

Once you realize how boring your neighborhood is from the air, that expensive quadcopter you bought should find a good home in the rafters of your garage. But don’t bury it too deep, you’ll need access to it around Halloween every year because Alton Porter has come up with the perfect use for your forgotten…

This man is dressed as Disneyland — ALL OF IT

Why pick one Disney character to dress up as for Halloween when you can dress up as the entire Disneyland park? Coolest Dad in the world, Rob Cockerham from Cockeyed, has finally finished his 2013 Halloween costume. Past costumes included a Box of Chocolates, Paparazzi and a whole lot more. This year he is THE…

Amazing and Inspirational Women’s Costumes to “Take Back Halloween”

It seems like lately the Halloween stores are full of “sassy” costumes or sexy spins on random staples (yep that’s a “sexy” Michael Myers outfit). Hey, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but what about championing the real heroes every once in a while? Writer and activist Suzanne Scoggins is helping “Take Back Halloween”…

io9’s Halloween Costume Show, Week 2: DIY Ways to Win Halloween!

When the annual io9 Halloween Costume Show kicked off last week, no one knew just what to expect, besides awesomeness. We did expect awesomeness. And that is exactly what we got. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-you-wearing-its-time-for-io9s-halloween-cos-1444530093 Take a gander at some of the amazing costumes your fellow commenters will be donning this year. Feeling inspired? Then go ahead and…

Disney princesses dress up as their favorite heroines

The Disney princesses get into the Halloween spirit in a series of pictures by Isaiah K Stephens. Stephens dresses each lady up as a battle-ready heroine. He has more of these costumed princesses on his Tumblr, including Ariel as Black Widow, Aurora as Daenerys, and Snow White as Wonder Woman. He’s planning a second set,…

What Are You Wearing? It’s Time for io9’s Halloween Costume Show!

It’s that time of year again. The leaves have begun to turn, the air has gone crisp, and one question is being bandied about across the nation: Who amongst us can pull off the Miley Cyrus teddy bear onesie? (Spoiler: No one can.) It’s time for io9’s annual Halloween Costume Show! You may recall the…

These freaky Halloween candies will bite you right back

When you inspect this year’s Halloween haul, make sure that you watch out for these sugary little monsters. This candy can be extremely bad for your health. Artist Andrew Bell sculpts these Halloween-themed horrors. His chocolate Kisses of Death and green tea Kill Kat bars are currently on display at the Bewitching III show at…

2013 Halloween Costumes We Are Dreading — And What to Wear Instead

Every year on All Hallows’ Eve there is a collection of trendy costumes that flood the streets. Don’t be a victim of costume saturation. Read our handy guide to the costumes we’re already dreading, and what you should wear instead. Costume Trend: Miley Twerk Bear We can already see the army of twerking Mileys descending…

Thomas Edison’s Talking Dolls Sound Like They’re Possessed By Satan

Thomas Edison is remembered for his contributions to many great innovations, including the phonograph, the light bulb, and the movie camera. But few people today remember one of his most spectacular failures: a talking doll that was the must-have Christmas toy in 1890. There was just one little problem with the dolls. They sounded like…

A Perfect Cardboard Robocop Costume Is a Great Reason To Recycle

Forget about reducing our demand for lumber, there’s no better reason to recycle than this remarkably detailed and accurate Robocop costume made entirely from cardboard, glue, and about twice as much dedication. Built and worn by Comic Book Girl 19 for this year’s Comic Con and Dragoncon, the costume took one month to design, and…

The Avengers assemble awesome Star Wars costumes for Halloween

Reddit user OdoWanKenobi took his amazing 12-inch Avengers figures from Hot Toys and got them ready for Halloween by dolling them up in Star Wars clothes, and the results are brilliant. Having Hawkeye as one of the least accurate soldiers in the galaxy is a spectacularly nice touch. [Via /Film]

Get Your Guts Ripped Out For an Awesome Halloween Costume

Two years ago a NASA engineer named Mark Rober emailed us a halloween costume that used two iPads to make it look like you had a gaping hole in your stomach. This year the system is both more refined, and more gruesome. Last year’s costumes (dubbed Digital Dudz) were cool if, frankly, a little janky.…

All the references in Del Toro’s Simpsons intro with handy labels

Didn’t catch all of the references in Guillermo Del Toro’s amazingly comprehensive Treehouse of Horror intro for The Simpsons? These folks think they did. (Though there are a few more in the comments.) The people over at MoviePilot put together this video, which pauses and labels each of the horror references in the intro sequence—including…

Can costumes get any sluttier than these new 2013 Halloween models?

At last, this Halloween you can be Prostitute America, Iron-Slut, Spider-Streetwalker and Miley Cyrus! Or any of these other ridiculous new Halloween costumes for 2013.

Best, Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes for 2013

Cosplay is for all year round — but dressing up in weird store-bought approximations of your faovrite characters only happens once a year. Spirit Halloween has rolled out this year’s prefab costumes. So here’s our annual look at the best, weirdest and trashiest Halloween costumes you can buy. Iron Man 3 Lone Ranger – Note…

Guillermo del Toro is directing the opening sequence of The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror.” This year’s Halloween episode will kick off with a del Toro-created opener featuring monsters from the past several decades of horror movies. The episode airs on October 6th.

Sexy Rick Grimes from Walking Dead is an actual Halloween costume now

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME. Yes, Sexy Rick Grimes is an actual, honest-to-god Halloween costumes that you ladies can purchase at SpiritHalloween.com for $49.99. I know the package says “Sassy Rick Grimes,” but we all know what’s going on here, and that’s that whatever tiny amount of shame the Halloween costume industry…

Burning Down the House on Devil’s Night

Hit flick The Purge asked what U.S. citizens might do during a 12-hour span in which all actions are legal. But a similar – albeit illegal – event occurs annually in cities across the world. Detroit plays home to the largest concentration of chaos on the night before Halloween, an evening known as Devil’s Night.…