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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 »
Robots
Spider-Bot Pumpkin Is A Scary Way To Dispense Lollies On Halloween
9:20AM Sean Fallon | If I wasn’t so worried about traumatising the kids in my neighbourhood, dispensing trick-or-treat lollies in this creepy spider-bot pumpkin would be awesome. More »
Design
Sword Illuminates A Pumpkin By Impaling It
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Obviously any jack-o’-lantern has already been mutilated mercilessly by children with knives and ice-cream scoops, but something about permanently sticking a $US10 light-up sword in its head just feels like salt in the wound. [Danna Bananas via Nerd Approved] More »
Design
Ideas For Tech-Themed Halloween Pumpkins
2:30AM Jesus Diaz | If you are looking for Halloween pumpkin carving ideas, here are some classic tech- and sci-fi-themes. I sure like R2-D2 more than Darth Pumpkin and Yod-o’-lantern, but the most terrifying is the red ring of death pumpkin. More »
Robots
10 Robot Halloween Pumpkins Provide Artistic Inspiration
6:40AM Sean Fallon | I got my pumpkins the other day, but I’ve been debating about what to carve. Botropolis may have provided the answer — robots! The 10 pumpkins on their list are ambitious, but you might find something that inspires you. [Botropolis]
Toys
Scare The Crap Out Of Trick-Or-Treaters With A Rovin’ Pumpkin
2:00AM Adam Frucci | Costumes and paper cut-out witches are all well and good, but if you want to legitimately scare trick-or-treaters, why not surprise them with a pumpkin that moves around under its own volition? More »
Gadgets
Lasers: The Only Way to Carve a Pumpkin
4:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | You could risk cutting yourself with a knife. Or you could buy one of those mini saw kits that always break off in the pumpkin. Or, if you really want to misuse company/lab equipment, you can requisition a laser cutter to carve your Halloween pumpkins. That’s what Doug did, and he has no regrets other than that the results “smell bad.”
Gadgets
DIY Stock Ticker Pumpkin is Truly Horrifying
9:30AM Sean Fallon | A clever cutout may suffice to scare the kids, but if you want your pumpkin to scare adults, consider putting down the carving set and picking up a soldering iron and a couple of 5×7 LED matrix arrays. Why? Because this tiny pumpkin displays the most frightening face of them all—the twisted horror of a 401K plan hemorrhaging funds. My guess is that if you have the know-how, this amusing concept could be scaled up fairly easily for maximum impact. Hit the link for instructions on how to build your own version. [Evil Mad Scientist via DVICE] More »
Gadgets
Truly Scare Neighbour Kids with CNC-Carved Geek-o-Lantern
8:19PM Kit Eaton | With just one day to go, the novelty Halloween pumpkins have been slowly building up: but I say none of them, none, have the scariness factor of this. It’s a geek head pumpkin, geekily precision-carved using a geekily cool open-source DIY CNC machine into a genuine geek pumpkin. OK, so the last part is a lie, but the rest is real: check out the video of the carving in action. It’s like a mini babyfood maker colliding with high-tech electronics. More »
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