Halloween

7 Costumes You Should NOT Wear for Halloween

Click to viewThe coolest holiday of them all is almost upon us, and we’ve done our best to prepare you. We’ve made a handful of costume suggestions. We asked your fellow readers to share their get-ups with you. And today, we offer you one of our most valuable services: what not to wear on the…

io9 Nisha Gopalan Oct 22

Die Halloween TiVo! Die!

The 10th installment of arieScope’s annual Halloween short film just might be its best. TiVo is the star of the show this year, and the video does a good job of exposing its dark side. At first TiVo just wants to get to know you—learn your preferences to create a customized TV-watching experience. Careful though—TiVo…

Television Sean Fallon Oct 22

RRoD Pumpkin: The Scariest Tale of Them All

If there’s one eerie light to avoid this Halloween night, it’s the RRoD pumpkin. Its eyes will glow bright yet you’ll discover with a fright, it’s the RRoD pumpkin. You can try as you might but Halo won’t play, right? It’s the RRoD pumpkin. [flickr via DVICE]

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 21

Steve Jobs Jack-O-Lantern Only Moderately Scary to Neighborhood Children

Halloween’s getting closer, and you know what that means: novelty pumpkin carving! The Joy of Tech has provided a nice little template of Steve Jobs’ face so you can have your own little Steve head in your front lawn this October 31st. Ryan from Seattle did an admirable job with the instructions, but even with…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 18

Homemade Mega Man Costume Looks Just as Good as the Real Thing

Kevin is an awesome dad. Because only a truly awesome dad would make a completely amazing Mega Man costume for his son, complete with light-up mega blaster. Sure, his kid was definitely not around when Mega Man was originally released, but I’m sure he’s enjoyed dying over and over and over again in Mega Man…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 16

Nothing Says ‘Happy Halloween’ Like a Robotic Crab with a Baby’s Head

Nothing says creepy like a crab robot with the head of a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. The robot, which is available in a DIY kit (sans head), takes about three hours to put together and is sure to freak out any kids that come around your house looking for free candy in a few weeks.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 8

Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes

It’s Halloween month, and we’ve already regaled you with instructions on how to make some of the coolest scifi costumes around. Now it’s your turn to show and tell us about your best — or worst, or most humiliating — scifi costume moments. We’ve created an io9 Flickr pool called io9 Scifi Halloween Costume Show…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Punch-Through Tombstone is an Explosive Memorial to the Dead

While yes, this breakable tombstone is meant for haunted houses and the like, as nothing is scarier than a fist breaking through a tombstone in your direction, I don’t see why the fun needs to end with Halloween. Why not use this as your regular tombstone? Sure, you’ll need to have one of your living…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 6

Best Use of an LED Yet (Eating Children)

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…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 29

3D Screaming Skull Cover: Dress Your PS3 Up for Halloween

Halloween is going to be here before you know it, so it is time to start getting prepared. But why should you be the only one getting dressed up? Throwing this screaming skull cover over your PS3 not only protects it from scratches, it also scares children. When they come ringing to trick or treat,…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 12

Brando USB Pumpkin Lights are Actually Cubicle-Worthy

I have an allergy to all gimmicky USB things, but these USB Halloween Pumpkin LED lights are actually cubicle-worthy, especially seeing how they all look with the lights off. Unfortunately, the $13 8-pumpkin lights package has some problems. Why not use normal electric plugs? Why waste all that energy when the lights are off and…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Sep 9

Halloween Bubble Fogger Delivers Targeted Strikes of Fog-Filled Bubbles to Your Eyes

Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done! According to the Bubble Fogger’s Amazon listing, this marvelous contraption creates fog solution-filled bubbles and casts…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 7

36-Inch Twitching Spider: Your Worst Nightmare in Lamp Form

I have yet to meet someone who is genuinely not creeped out by spiders, so I would imagine that you could get a lot of laughs out of a 36-incher that features four twitching legs illuminated by purple incandescent lights. It would be great as a Halloween decoration, or for placing next to your partner…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Aug 22

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain Brings Murderous Fun Into the Bathroom

There’s actually a lot more to this bloody shower curtain Halloween decoration than meets the eye. There’s the obvious stuff, of course, like the homage to Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. And the blood splatters and hand prints themselves say a lot about the owner. But beyond that, there’s a little something extra in store for…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 27

Monster Theater Video Tour: One Sci-Fi Nerd’s $100,000 Nightmarish Fantasy

Who doesn’t want their home theater to look like a "spaceship transporting dangerous aliens"? I for one wouldn’t mind owning an animatronic alien that pops out of nowhere. "When steam starts blasting from ceiling vents and the alien lurches through the wall, you hear friends scream expletives like ‘holy (expletive)’—and then request to borrow a…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Dec 20

Turn Your Old, Dusty PC Into Ghetto Gas Mask

Everyone needs a gas mask to go with their tinfoil hat, but the problem is that they tend to cost too damn much. Unless you construct one from scrap parts from your last PC. With a paper bag base, CD case visor and a filter fashioned from a keyboard box, cleaning disk, CPU fan and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 31

Steve Ballmer’s Costume Dungeon Makes Halloween That Much Scarier

Halloween is all about dressing up, and if you’re not so into dressing yourself up, there’s no way you won’t enjoy dressing up Microsoft honcho and complete madman Steve Ballmer. This shouldn’t be as fun as it is, it really shouldn’t. I made Ballmer look like a ballerina! Ah-haw-haw-haw! [Joy of Tech]

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 31

Top 10 Sexiest Halloween Costumes for 2007

In honor of the autumnal season and one of our favorite pastimes, here’s a roundup of the Top 10 Sexiest Halloween Costumes in the entire world. After all, Halloween is a holiday for goblins, geeks, goons, weirdos, trolls and merrymakers of all stripes, so we knew the Giz readership wouldn’t mind if we posted a…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 31

Dog Dresses Up as iPhone for Halloween Celebration

Who says people get to have all the Halloween fun? Dress up your dog in this iPhone Halloween costume and he’ll be the envy of all the other mutts. On the other hand, wearing this getup couldn’t be much fun for the poor guy. Nevertheless, this is a brilliantly executed costume, even better than that…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 31

Gizmodo Does Halloween, Oh Do We Do It

Happy Halloween, all you scary, scary readers. Today may be the official Halloween, but we’ve been celebrating the holiday for at least a few days now. Here are all of our best stories that you should be sure link in your mass holiday email to look cool: Papercraft Skull with Moving Jaw Make Blood Without…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Oct 31

7 Costumes You Should NOT Wear for Halloween

Die Halloween TiVo! Die!

RRoD Pumpkin: The Scariest Tale of Them All

Steve Jobs Jack-O-Lantern Only Moderately Scary to Neighborhood Children

Homemade Mega Man Costume Looks Just as Good as the Real Thing

Nothing Says ‘Happy Halloween’ Like a Robotic Crab with a Baby’s Head

Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes

Punch-Through Tombstone is an Explosive Memorial to the Dead

Best Use of an LED Yet (Eating Children)

3D Screaming Skull Cover: Dress Your PS3 Up for Halloween

Brando USB Pumpkin Lights are Actually Cubicle-Worthy

Halloween Bubble Fogger Delivers Targeted Strikes of Fog-Filled Bubbles to Your Eyes

36-Inch Twitching Spider: Your Worst Nightmare in Lamp Form

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain Brings Murderous Fun Into the Bathroom

Monster Theater Video Tour: One Sci-Fi Nerd’s $100,000 Nightmarish Fantasy

Turn Your Old, Dusty PC Into Ghetto Gas Mask

Steve Ballmer’s Costume Dungeon Makes Halloween That Much Scarier

Top 10 Sexiest Halloween Costumes for 2007

Dog Dresses Up as iPhone for Halloween Celebration

Gizmodo Does Halloween, Oh Do We Do It

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