The imagineers at Disney World recently made the dangerous decision to fiddle with Haunted Mansion, one of the park’s finest attractions, updating the holographic hitchhiking ghosts that appear to join you in your car as you leave the ride for the 21st Century. But wait!, you say. Stop! It’s not broke! Don’t fix it! More »
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Now that it’s November, doesn’t all that Halloween hoopla just seems so childish in retrospect? And some dad building a remote-controlled ghost out of an RC quadrocopter to scare neighbourhood kids? Especially childish. No wait that’s just awesome. More »
While we’re waiting for the Ghostbusters to return to the big screen, a group of artists have dragged our favourite ghost hunting foursome back into the spotlight with a Proton Pack-powered gallery show. More »
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Sure, the ghost special effects somehow have gotten worse in the last 20 years, but it’s pretty much impossible to not be charmed by the Ghostbusters returning to the New York Public Library. More »
With Halloween this weekend, it seemed like the perfect time to discuss a problem far too many of us face — homes that are haunted by evil spirits.These gadgets can confirm you are not completely crazy. More »
Designed to look like it’s almost not really there, this “Ghost Chair” puts me more in mind of milk poured into water. It’s pretty futuristic, in a curved-yet-straight, acrylic kind of way. It’s apparently the first in a line of chairs and stools from designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn that will use this novel technique. We don’t know if you’ll be able to buy them, though they’d certainly make a dining set that would be a conversation starter. Conversations like: “These chairs look like someone’s taken a glass of water and poured in …” It’s on display from the 16th to 21st April in the Salone del Mobile in Milan. [Designdrift via Yanko design]
A grieving widower claims to have been receiving calls and text messages from beyond the grave. Frank Jones, whose wife Sadie died five years ago, says he has been plagued by SMS messages and missed calls since she was buried—her beloved mobile phone in the coffin beside her.
