Tag: HALLOWEENCOSTUMES

Last month, an incredibly awesome dad constructed a RoboCop costume for his young son, Gram, out of "crap [he] had in his basement." The inexpensive finished costume actually looked impressively realistic, and the ridiculously cute Robo-kid became a viral hit. The photos were such a hit, in fact, that they reportedly attracted the bionic eye of the real RoboCop (or the actor who played him, ...

It's easy to earn our respect with adorably geeky children's costumes -- but if you're an adult playing dress-up, you've really got to go all out. Melissa Dunphy did just that with this incredible Krang costume for her husband, made with her own two hands. It talks. It moves. It's the best costume we've see this year. Check out the video after the break. ...

Last year, John Savio became the envy of trick-or-treating Apple fanboys everywhere, with his human-size, fully functional iPhone Halloween costume. At the time, we were convinced that he'd reached the zenith of Halloween geekdom. We were wrong. This year, Savio's upped the costume ante once again, with his latest human-size, jailbroken iPhone 4. With a touchscreen. To create his masterpiece, ...

People take their Halloween costumes pretty seriously, but we think legendary modder Ben Heck should win the prize for geekiest creation this year. His 'Portal'-inspired shirt features a rear-facing camera that feeds video to a chest-mounted LCD, allowing you to look right "through" him. Watch Heck hack the whole thing together in the latest episode of the 'Ben Heck Show,' embedded after the ...

Parents often fret about video game addiction and the effects of violent games, but one super-geek dad has apparently realized how to address those concerns. Eleven-year-old Joseph DeRose loves gaming, so his perceptive father recently took part in -- and actively promoted -- his son's pastime by helping him to construct an incredibly cool Halloween costume. Relying on an incredibly steady ...

Only two short weeks remain for indecisive Halloween revelers to prepare relevant, timely and hilarious costume conversation pieces. Fortunately, the Internet provides an unceasing slew of costume ideas, and Nerve has selected a few of the Web's trendiest memes to inspire procrastinating masqueraders. The list includes the expected offerings of Double Rainbow Guy, Sad Keanu (with ample time ...

Whether it was a brilliant stunt or just sweet irony at work, we'll probably never know what 18-year-old trick-or-treater James Miller was thinking when he was arrested early Sunday, for drunk driving, dressed as a Breathalyzer. Cops pulled over the intoxicated Cincinnati teen in Oxford, Ohio after catching him driving the wrong way on a one-way street, NBC 4 reports. As police searched the ...

Halloween's just days away. If you still haven't found the creative yet snarky costume of your dreams, then you'd better get busy, because the witching hour is fast approaching. If you're completely stumped, you'll either be inspired or totally devastated by a few guys whose iPhone costumes have upped the ante on ridiculous get-ups. Four geeks from Tampa -- John Savio, John Matthews, Reko ...