Tag: HALLOWEEN

On Halloween, a group of really cool teenagers decided to remind everyone of their awesomeness, and proceeded to vandalize their Brooklyn neighborhood. Little did they know, however, that 26-year-old Daniel Cavanagh was lurking in the shadows and observing their every movement. After doing a little research, Cavanagh friended the teens on Facebook, and headed to his blog, where he described the ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The bar has been raised for scary, homemade Halloween gadgets: Michael Colton built a remote-controlled flying ghost helicopter to scare the candy-hoarding children. [From: Engadget] The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal dives into the Google Books search algorithm. Books present the ...

Call us Halloween enthusiasts, but we have some tricks and treats in store for you. In case you don't know, we scour the depths of the Internet for the coolest, most addicting and least productivity-friendly Flash games for you to play each week, featuring one every Monday-Friday. But this week -- in honor of the scariest and most gruesome time in the year -- we combined our love of October 31st ...

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. ...

Rather than carve a plain ol' jack-o'-lantern for Halloween, the guys at Hack A Day installed a 5-by-14 matrix of LEDs inside October's favorite squash. Like Kitt from 'Knight Rider,' the pumpkin flashes a series of disco-like patterns, along with the seasonally obvious greeting "HAPPY HALLOWEEN." The project took eight hours of soldering and required more than 70 holes to be drilled, commanding ...

One of the benefits of being a parent is being able to channel your inner geek into your child. Of course, this would normally lead to him or her being branded as "that nerd kid" for life, and being given a solid introduction to the internal structures of toilet bowls, garbage cans and lockers. But, on Halloween, you can get away with normally unacceptable levels of geekery in the name of ...

Ah... Halloween. We embrace our spooky sides by filling our October nights with horror, donning our black capes and, of course, playing as many terrifying video games as possible. (Don't you?) While we can't deny the appeal of monster mainstays like 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' our horror tastes lean towards the brain-munching variety. So join us as we indulge in our love of Halloween by ...

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, ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Megan Scheminske's 'You Are Here' series of paintings adopts the Google Maps aesthetic to illustrate locations from Davenport, Washington to Medway, Massachusetts. [From: Megan Scheminske] If early reports are any indication, 'Angry Birds' costumes may be this year's biggest ...

Ah... Halloween. We embrace our spooky sides by filling our October nights with horror, donning our black capes and, of course, playing as many terrifying video games as possible. (Don't you?) While we can't deny the appeal of monster mainstays like 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' our horror tastes lean towards the brain-munching variety. So join us as we indulge in our love of Halloween by ...

Ah... Halloween. We embrace our spooky sides by filling our October nights with horror, donning our black capes and, of course, playing as many terrifying video games as possible. (Don't you?) While we can't deny the appeal of monster mainstays like 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' our horror tastes lean towards the brain-munching variety. So join us as we indulge in our love of Halloween by ...

Ah... Halloween. We embrace our spooky sides by filling our October nights with horror, donning our black capes and, of course, playing as many terrifying video games as possible. (Don't you?) While we can't deny the appeal of monster mainstays like 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' our horror tastes lean towards the brain-munching variety. So join us as we indulge in our love of Halloween by ...

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 ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. If you're in the New York area for this Halloween weekend, don't miss the second annual bash from our friends over at Urlesque. Dress up as your favorite meme, and mosey on over to the Gutter in Brooklyn for the HallowMeme party at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 29th. [From: ...

Ah... Halloween. We embrace our spooky sides by filling our October nights with horror, donning our black capes and, of course, playing as many terrifying video games as possible. (Don't you?) While we can't deny the appeal of monster mainstays like 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' our horror tastes lean towards the brain-munching variety. So join us as we indulge in our love of Halloween by ...