Hasta La Gadget!

Last year, NASA engineer Mark Rober shared his cool see-through iPad costume with us, but while it was one of the more clever geeky costumes I’d seen in a while, it wasn’t exactly cheap to pull off – you needed a pair of iPads to do it. Well now Mark and his buddies have come up with a spin-off on his original concept, which lets you create fun animated Halloween costumes using any iOS or Android device.

DigitalDudz is an an app, which when combined with the appropriate t-shirt and some duct tape, creates some brilliant animated costumes. Most of the designs feature some sort of moving eyeball effect, which is quite creepy. Here, check it out in action:

And if eyeballs aren’t your thing, there’s always the iWound, a custom-made latex insert with bloody details, which when paired with the “beating heart” mode in DigitalDudz is about the goriest thing you’ll see this Halloween (especially if you place the heart somewhere unusual on your body – like your arm or leg.) There are also animations of maggots, snakes, spiders and gears if you’re going for some sort of steampunk look.

Pretty creative, huh? And with the app going for the grand price of FREE, you can definitely put together a cheap Halloween costume with DigitalDudz. The matching t-shirts sell for $23.50(USD), but you can always just use the app with your own t-shirts too. Grab the iOS app here, and the Android version here. The iWound latex insert sells for $34.50.

Be sure to check out the tips below for the best way to set up your DigitalDudz costume:

October is here and that means we’re on the lookout for all sorts of geeky pumpkins. We’ve already found one supremely geeky pumpkin with the Death Star that we showed you this week. If you’re into geeky pumpkins, all you’ve got to do to win is come up with a pumpkin carving template design for chance to win some money and prizes, in ThinkGeek’s annual Great Geeky Pumpkin Template Contest.

The winner of the contest will get a $131 ThinkGeek gift certificate and a mystery box filled with cool ThinkGeek goodies. You can send in your templates until October 29, 2012. It sounds like the winners will actually be carved so we can see them. I happen to think the Nyan Cat pumpkin is one of the coolest templates ever.

If you hop over to ThinkGeek you can download templates submitted in past years’ contests including a Boba Fett template, Nyan Cat, and even Sheldon Cooper. I also have a soft spot for the Portal pumpkins and the stormtrooper.

Whether you’re looking for an accessory to go with your Halloween costume, or just something to toss around out on the quad year-round, the Sawblade Throwing Disc is just the right thing.

While you could toss around an actual sawblade, I’m guessing you and your buddies would like to keep your fingers and other body parts intact. So this 10″ diameter soft foam flyer designed to look like a bloody sawblade should do the trick. Though I’d cover it with some dripping fake blood to make it more realistic before throwing it to my friends.

It’s just $4.99(USD) over at ThinkGeek, so why not buy a bunch and fling them around the room using your gravity gun.

[via Random Good Stuff]

If you didn’t already pick up that giant fist for carrying around your beer, you might want to hold off and buy these instead. These giant, inflatable fists turn your mitts into massive mech-like robo-fists.

The Giant Robot Battle Fists are perfect for taking down all who dare to stand in your way – without actually leaving them with a concussion. Actually, ThinkGeek says that if you punch things with them, you might pop ‘em, so boo, hiss. Still they’re pretty awesome for your Halloween costume. Just think – you can go as crazy-robot-hand-guy again, but this time people will know who you are.

A pair of this oversize blow-up fists will set you back $35(USD) over at ThinkGeek. Air and pursed lips not included.

Neurowear, the creators of those bizarre Necomimi cat ears, have taken the field of brainwave actuated mood indicators to a new, lower level with "Shippo", the world’s first mind-controlled wearable tail!