masks
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The Great Gizmodo Halloween Roundup
12:00PM Chris Jacob | 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! More »
Design
Ruin Halloween For Everyone By Going As Brian Lam Or Jason Chen
12:40AM Adam Frucci | 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]
Design
The Comfort Respirator
11:30AM Jason Chen | 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] More »
Design
Protect Yourself Against the Swine Flu, With Style
10:42PM Jesus Diaz | 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. More »
Gadgets
Gas Mask Kazoos: Death With An Annoying Diddy
10:20AM Sean Fallon | For no good reason at all, the guys at Rathergood made a series of gas mask kazoos. All they need is one more member to make the scariest barbershop quartet ever assembled. More »
Design
Joker Ski Mask Is Creepy In More Ways Than One
9:00AM John Mahoney | It’s not quite a Mission Impossible latex replace-a-face, but it’ll do for these frigid times. And as with everything related to Ledger’s Joker, the gravitas is off the charts. [Amazon via Great White Shark] More »
Cameras
Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320 Diving Video Mask Is Dumbtastic
10:20AM Jesus Diaz | When I go on my diving vacation at the end of this month, I won’t be bringing this video mask. Why anyone would like to attach dumb headlights to vital diving gear is beyond me. More »
Random Stuff
Pore-Tightening Mask Allows Couples to Fight Crime Together
11:27AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] More »
Gadgets
Buy Your Own Face for $US299, Or Someone Else’s…
5:20AM Mark Wilson | Your face has worked out so far, but in the age of exploding laptop batteries and botched nose jobs, we can all use a spare. ThatsMyFace is a service that will create anything from a life-sized mask ($US200) to a full 3D sculpture of your head ($US2,000) with just two 2D images from you.
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