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Working iPod Halloween Costume
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
Maybe Apple can place a couple of these iPod "kiosks" in shopping malls, what's the better way to experience iPod mini with a giant iPod?
On a more serious note though, a real scary Halloween custume is Death framed inside a blue-tinted Window.
With so many images on one page, this guy obviously didn't read the Do-Not-Slashdot ACT 1996, here's a coral link just in case.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
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http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/ipod-costume-02455 5.php
I like this one better
Matt
it seems to me you went as "Guy with Giant iPod around his neck.".
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Not only is this a surprisingly cool costume that uses technology in innvative ways...
But it still looks better any model from creative, virgin, ogg vorbis player, out there!
Ever wondered why that chick in the picture has her legs on the other dude, and not you????
But where does he store the candy?
They want royalties for playing their songs out in public. Oh sweet costume by the way.
how does this get on slashdot?
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume"
great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
apparently not, considering how the site is down.
it is now safe to take off your tin foil hat.
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I could imagine someone saying: 'Hey baby, I can show you how to REALLY use the scroll wheel' Pretty cool idea though.
Bite me. Seriously, I enjoy it.
I hope he has an extended warranty, because he is going to get the crap beaten out of him going out like that.
As the site's dead and mirrordot hasn't pulled a copy of it, I managed to mirror it:u /~jwinick/Halloween2004/
http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.ed
I decided to be a web server at University of Michigan for Hallowe'en this year. I didn't want to walk around in a cardboard box, so I used some smouldering rags to provide the smoke and flames effect.
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"In other news, local man dressed as an iPod was found inebriated and trying to hump a boombox speaker, after a wild night at a halloween party. The man has been referred for counselling."
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I didn't want to do my homework today anyway. :-)
No, the guy in the article strapped a cardboard box around his neck, wrote 'ipod' on it plus some silver foil to represent the buttons, then proceeded to get his server slashdotted :)
*really* slow news day today... They don't come lamer than this.
Which button calls your parents to come pick you up??
..he made it into the 'display' of a costume. Of an Apple product. Finally, someone comes out and says that the Emperor has no clothes, that Microsoft's FUD machine can't spin something out of nothing, and that the tablet-PC-using-dork in Starbucks really is just that, a dork. Thank you, for pointing out the retardation of Tablet PCs.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
The server actually belongs to the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) department at the University of Michigan. You would definitely think they'd be geeky enough to have a decent server. I'm actually a student there and rely on that server for school. I actually ended up on Slashdot when I couldn't get the spec on a project because the server was down.
Yep, Slashdot is destroying productivity as never before.
Not more than you need, just more than you want
coralized link to eecs server is working.
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
The server may have survived longer if the images had been actually resized. Many are 500KB - 1MB each, html resized to 800x600. I'm trying to make a mirror of the mirror and use true resized images but I'm getting about 500 bytes/sec.
Interesting, but I like the girls costume better ;-] RECOUNT!
...and if she existed.
Damn, do they have the movie clip of where he fell over, struggled for a good five minutes trying to get up, then gave a fervent cry about why he could not have come as a walkman?
lawyers in 3...2...1...
I guess it's not like he could get caught infringing on Apple's trademark. The only way he could get caught would be to post a description and links to pictures on a well known website. He shouldn't get in any troub...oh, nevermind. Good luck.
He'd better be careful; I've been hearing a lot about iPod killers lately.
Sailors. Oh man!
No one actually cares.
I think Red Robot might have beaten him out. (As opposed to merely beating him...)
Brandon Hume
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To see more really cool, ingenious costumes, check out these gems made by Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com:
Paparazzi costume
Jenga costume
Africa costume
California costume
And to think that all this time, I thought the candy was an indirect gift to dentists.
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I need this box to do my project work and you submitted it to slashdot?!?!
/.ers as it is much too small, put your shit onto caen's boxes
Please don't ever put eecs up to the
Chicago is the font Apple uses on the iPod (but not on the iPod Mini). Back in the day it was the font for all the Mac's menus and dialog boxes, later replaced by Charcoal and--today--Lucida Grande, IIRC. Here is a scan of my iPod's screen so you can see Chicago in all its glory.
There's more info about Apple's fonts on Wikipedia, but for some reason Slashdot won't let me link to it. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_fonts
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That was one of the coolest costumes I've ever seen.
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I was going to go as a Wireless router, but I couldn't get the doc to prescribe Viagra for antenna maintenance. :(
Maybe next year.
After fellow Slashdotters are done, *someone* is going to have to do a lot of explaining to UMICH's IT department... and convincing as well to keep his account around.
The technology on this just flat out smokes the design execution. This would have been better as a Nomad given the shoddy design of the costume as a whole.
/. umich.edu thats kiddy stuff The other week we made Georgia Tech's webserver unusable. With a story about an Xbox hacked to run Mac OS. GT has one of the fastest connections in the country and has the southeast region internet hub on campus.
What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religions.
Stop blaming christians for the invading germanic tribes wiping out the celts.
Samhaim had nothing to do with people dressing up like red devils with pitch forks or as witches or the dead. http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm Yes, halloween was instituted to make light of various pagan rituals/beliefs.
Bonfires were common among the pagan cultures of northern europe and are not unique to Samhain.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Serious. Who taught web design to this moron? All his page is composed of HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES! No wonder it got slashdoted after the first 100 visits or so (wild guess). I'm reading the coral link.
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/., thou shalt be damned.
Doesn't he know how to use thumbnails?
Perhaps we should add a guide to
Before posting:
I. Thou shalt not use high resolution images on your webpages.
II. If thou do and link them from
That just looks horrible. And that is what costumes are about. Looks.
I have a website. It's about Macs.