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The Great Gizmodo Halloween Roundup

Chris Jacob — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0000

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
• 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 14:40:00 +0000

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 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:30:00 +0000

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 12:42:02 +0000

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 favourites, however, are the colourful masks designed by Japanese artist Yoriko Yoshida. Visit Yoriko’s page for more designs. [Yoriko Yashida via Pink Tentacle and Daily Telegraph]

Gas Mask Kazoos: Death With An Annoying Diddy

Sean Fallon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:20:00 +0000

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.

Here is an extremely annoying video illustrating the process:

Forget barbershop quartet. One more member and they will have the fourth horseman of the apocalypse. [Rathergood via Make via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Joker Ski Mask Is Creepy In More Ways Than One

John Mahoney — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:00:00 +0000

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]

Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320 Diving Video Mask Is Dumbtastic

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:20:00 +0000

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.

While Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320 is a huge jump over their previous toy-mask–reaching 35 metres and capable of capturing 720p video and 5 megapixel photos–didn’t anyone tell these people that one of the first rules of scuba diving is not to have objects protruding out of your personal space beyond your tank and BCD?

Apparently not. Even if the lamps get off easily in case your mask gets stuck in the coral or some underwater plant, it still looks dangerous and complicated. You can use it without lamps, but then you won’t be able to use its features to its full potential. Light and colour quickly disappear when you go down. In addition to that, in terms of function you will be limited to the movements of your head as far as angles go.

In other words, if you are serious about getting good video or photographs underwater, forget about gimmicks like this and get external equipment. It will be more flexible and safe. [CES Show]

Pore-Tightening Mask Allows Couples to Fight Crime Together

Gizmodo US Edition — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:27:18 +0000

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 $US299, Or Someone Else’s…

Mark Wilson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:00 +0000

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.

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]

Use No. 7,853 For Duct Tape: Intricately Sculpted Batman Mask

John Mahoney — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Duct tape was the perfect medium for Instructables user seamster to craft this cool-looking Dark Knight-era Bat-mask for his mug. Halloween’s just around the corner, and no everyone can’t go as Sarah Palin, so if your costume/dominatrix supply shop is sold out of knee-high patent leather boots, librarian glasses and $US5,000 dresses from Barney’s, consider following along here. [Instructables]