11 Geekiest Halloween Costumes 2
Halloween is about more than Jack O'Lanterns and trick-or-treaters. It's a perfect time to let your geek flag fly. Check out some of our favorite geeky costumes.
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For some folks, Halloween is a yearlong obsession. It's a chance to immerse themselves into other characters. Some even start planning their costumes on Nov. 1 and work throughout the year to outdo the previous year's efforts. If you aren't fabricating your own metal parts, your heart just isn't in it.
I've pulled together 11 of the geekiest, most techie Halloween costumes I could find. They include social networks, mobile devices, carnival attractions, sci-fi characters, and babies driving robots. Be sure to get all the way to the end, so you don't miss the guy who went as all of Disneyland. If you aren't amazed, well, then maybe you just don't enjoy Halloween.
Who knows? You might even get some ideas for your own costume. Let us know in the comments what you're going as this year. And if you're still undecided -- even after viewing this slideshow -- ask the InformationWeek community for some advice. Maybe we can help inspire your creative side.
So let's get started checking out these costumes -- and Happy Halloween.
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Halloween isn't all about robots and monsters -- people like to dress as devices, too. This isn't the most impressive costume, but I enjoy the fact that this is what a cellphone costume looked like back in 2006, which (at least from my perspective) doesn't seem that long ago. Want to feel old? The advertising phrase "Can you hear me now?" is four years older than this costume.
Devices are one thing, but who would have thought even 10 years ago that people would be dressing as apps? These two apparently swept right at some point and lived happily ever after -- or at least through a Halloween costume contest at a Chicago bar. It is Tinder, after all. No one promised you'd be matched on 37 levels of deep compatibility.
I'll confess. When I was a kid, I went as a Rubik's Cube one Halloween, because all I needed was a box and some colored paper. Minecraft has given a new generation of kids with boxes a great costume idea. Painting in eight-bit graphics couldn't be easier, and it doesn't take a very big resource pack to throw it all together.
One of my favorite things about Halloween is it gives people a chance to transform themselves. The next three costumes are all designed by people who turned mobility challenges into brilliant costumes. Vader in his TIE fighter is an amazingly creative way to turn a wheelchair into the most awesome Halloween prop ever. I'll probably earn a force choke from Vader when I point out that Vader's TIE fighter had bent wings.
If you don't know who Josh Sundquist is, you should get to know him. At 9, he lost his leg to a rare form of bone cancer. In his teens, he took up ski racing and is now a Paralympian. He's written a best-selling book about his experience, and he tours the country raising money for several great causes. And he just happens to do some of the most hilarious Halloween costumes ever. (If it's not clear, his leg is the head and neck of the flamingo. His head is the tail, and he's balancing his entire weight on his crutches.) In prior years, he's been the leg lamp from A Christmas Story and a gingerbread cookie with one leg bitten off. I can't wait to see what he has set for this year. I'll post it in the comments.
Another fantastic use of a wheelchair in a costume. Obviously, this is not a working steam-powered wheelchair, but it makes me wonder what it would take to make one. I suspect the boiler and drive wheels would need to be bigger, and the smokestack farther away from the head of the person in the chair... and I'm just going to stop there, before I start building one in my garage.
I've got nothing -- I'm just in awe of this. I can't believe he built it. I can't believe he can walk in it. I have no idea how he got through doors or went to the bathroom. I can only bow to the most amazing Halloween costume I've ever seen. Only one complaint: I want a train that circles the whole thing. Oh, and a monorail -- next year, I want him to add a monorail. The craziest thing is this didn't even win the costume contest he entered; he came in second.
Which costume is your favorite? Did any of them inspire you to make a great Halloween costume this year? What is the best costume you've ever worn -- or seen? Tell us in the comments. And happy Halloween.
Which costume is your favorite? Did any of them inspire you to make a great Halloween costume this year? What is the best costume you've ever worn -- or seen? Tell us in the comments. And happy Halloween.
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