If you’re a fan of deadmau5, and have a massive budget for your Halloween costume, here’s something that’ll blow all your friends away. It’s a replica of the performer’s famous light-up stage head, and it can be yours for the low, low price of $2750 (USD).
It was made by Etsy artist Jeffrey Nappi, and it has an orb-shaped helmet, covered in 168 RGB LEDs, along with electroluminescent mouse ears. It’s operated by a San Devices E680 pixel controller and Madrix computer lighting control software which can be programmed to display any imagery you’d like. While it’s not quite as awesome as this guy’s version that uses over 760 LEDs, you can’t buy that one.
In case you’re wondering how you see out of this thing, the helmet is actually made from a see-through acrylic globe, so I can only imagine the trippy, rave-like experience you’ll get wearing this thing. Here’s a video montage showing Jeffrey’s build process, as well as the helmet in action:
And some more footage of the head reacting to music (and playing a little Tetris):
If you can’t spare the nearly $3000 to buy a pre-built one from Jeffrey, you can attempt to build your own from the parts list and source code provided up on GitHub. But for those of you with the budget, and the lack of technical skill, you can order one over on Etsy now.
Having a movie that looks really great in Full HD resolution is nice, but when you cannot couple that with decent audio, then it is somewhat a crippled movie watching experience. I guess you can say that this would be somewhat akin to playing video games without the sound, or having french fries while holding the salt, or how about a chocolate cake without the icing? You get the picture, and to make sure that one is full well able to appreciate just what great sounding audio is like, one will need to wear a pair of decent headphones to boot.
Sol Republic has a plan to change – in a good way, the world of headphones with the deadmau5 collaboration Tracks HD headphones. It was developed in close cooperation with the multiple award-winning electronic music artist Joel Zimmerman, also known as deadmau5, as well as digital artist Joshua Davis. This is not another artist-inspired headphone just for the sake of appearances, as there are music artists out there who want to nurture their enterprising and creative spirit further while maintaining an interesting artistic view.
