Can't live without a cell phone or media player? A Halloween costume is a great way to celebrate your favorite gadget. Besides, when dressing up as an iPhone, BlackBerry, iPod or even Facebook for a Halloween party, you will totally smash the classical community of Witches, Elfs and Vampires.
Here is a showcase of amusing and creative cell phone and gadget costumes. These guys know how to look different on Halloween. Check out this hilarious collection, then create your own geeky style which one day may inspire others.
iDog
We are not sure whether this doggy cares about the iPhone craze at all, but he definitely looks stunning in this neat costume. Wonder how the owner is dressed up?
New age trick-or-treaters
This iPod family has probably the best chances to become a candy champ in their area. They chose the right brand to rock the neighborhood on Halloween.
Hallow Moto!
iPhone costumes are the latest fashion rage, so this year a school Halloween party may look like an Apple retail store. The guy in the picture sets the right example -- think different (seriously!) and dress up as Motorola RAZR. After all, vintage style is cool, too. (We're waiting to see who's hip enough to create a StarTac costume.)
Cool Apps
This costume looks pretty conventional at first, but look closer and you will see the gimmick: funny Apps icons. Definitely, a clever take on the iPhone.
iPod Couple
This couple looks lovely in their iPod costumes. No doubts, if they were at the gadget fancy-dress ball, they would be number one. Dancing can be a problem, though...
Cycle Phone
This shot depicts a scene from the upcoming movie A Couple of Dicks. Tracy Morgan wearing a giant cell phone costume on a stylized bicycle is hilarious -- maybe you can use this costume idea when getting ready for Halloween.
Skintight phone costume
We are pretty sure that the designer of this costume was inspired by some ultra-slim cell phone model. This is probably the most desperate take on the phone costume in our selection.
iPod Earbuds Costume
Not only did these guys hit everybody with their fun earbuds costumes, but they also provided music out of a portable speaker hidden inside, so they were absolutely authentic.
There are tons of gadgets and devices available today, so you have an endless source of ideas for your Halloween costume. Be unique and have a happy Halloween!
What was once the worst fear of every paranoid person out there may well become reality soon enough for the US military. In 2008, the Army awarded a $4 million contract to a team of scientists from three American universities. The goal of the project is the development of helmets that will read and transmit soldiers’ thoughts to each other without the need for vocal interaction – sort of like a radio without a microphone. It may sound like science fiction, but crazily enough, it’s entirely possible. Brain-computer interaction is currently being developed to help paraplegics type, and there is even a commercially available gaming headset controlled by brain waves.
The military system would have to be significantly more complex than a video game-based system, though, and as a result it probably won’t be available for another decade or so. The developers first have to work out how to decode the brain activity associated with speech. At first, the messages from one soldier to another would be rendered in a robotic voice. The Army hopes that eventually, the message can come in the soldier’s own voice and even indicate his position and distance from the recipient, just as if he were actually speaking.
There doesn’t seem to be much reason for the paranoid among us to worry about the military reading our thoughts. The scientists involved in the project insist that you have to be willing in order to transmit a message, and even then it takes some effort to do so. With the huge increase in battlefield security that a device like this could offer soldiers, it’s hard not to get behind it. But when it’s marketed as an add-on for your cell phone, it might be time to get the tin foil hat out.
