Halloween Apple's - Working iPhone Costumes
by Editor, Web Wise Business (26 October 2009)
As you are no doubt aware, Halloween is just around the corner (this weekend to be precise!) and parents everywhere will no doubt be helping their children prepare their costumes for a night of sugar filled terror, perhaps even some will be preparing their own party costumes too!
But if you thought your
Optimus Prime or
Ghostbuster's costume would make you the best dressed and most "dedicated" to the Halloween cause then you might want to watch out for anyone emulating Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman's costume efforts.
Taking Halloween and geekery to the extreme, these two have put together their own working iPhone 3GS costumes at a cost of around $2,000.
Taking over 3 weeks to build, and weighing in at 85lbs each, the costumes are made by attaching an iPhone 3GS to a 42" LCD television, which is powered by a car battery worn between the wearer's legs. The result is a human sized iPhone and a potentially well cooked individual!
Not exactly practical if you are looking to make sure your kids are well kitted out for Halloween, but it is still pretty neat. Now where's that flat screen TV....