Tag: PUMPKIN

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. What is the ...

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 ...

Virtual pumpkins are fine for a little indoor holiday spirit, but nothing beats an interestingly carved version of the orange and fleshy variety, especially when it's with a geeky, video game theme. That's what we've got with the set of pumpkins (and gourds) above, a clever set of carvings posted at Indestructables, which took a lot of creativity, but no intricate carving skills. The two ghosts, ...