HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! This is me in my get-up last year just before losing the costume contest and sai-ing all the judges in the face. Everybody have fun out there tonight and remember to be safe (but not too safe). Also, if you see a David after the Dentist stumbling around, that’s me (I scored a nitrous tank!). HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Have Fun Everyone!

First of all, the only Facebook group you really need to join is Geekologie’s (and NOT The Superficial’s ). But if you’re into joining every group possible you can join this guy’s , whose girlfriend has agreed to let him pirate -theme their house if he gets 1,000,000 fans. I’ve always wanted to be a pirate, and the onlyway I can truely do this is to live aboard a pirate ship, as I am tied into a house and a mortgage with this house, and I dont live anywhere near the sea, the only thing I can do is to turn my house into a massive pirate ship. I already have enough money to buy some wooden slats from B&Q, I just need to get my girlfriend to agree to remortgage the house so that I can afford decking, and masts, and eventually sails. If 1 million people joined this group it would help her understand that this isnt such a bad idea, and lots of people would do it as well, and it would help my dream come true. If you can leave a piratty message on the wall, it would also help. I was going to join but then I saw dude already has 988,756 fans, so he’s practically there. And by ‘there’ I mean on my shit-list. NOBODY OUT PIRATE-HOUSES ME! Facebook Group Thanks to Nikki, Dan, AJ and Lemrin, who all live in ninja-houses and have vowed to burn dude’s pirate house to the ground to prove their stealthy supremacy.

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Guy Needs 1M Facebook Fans And Girlfriend Will Let Him Turn House Into A Pirate Ship

I was sitting on it the whole time!! Picture [thechive] Thanks to Uberscooter, as badass as a scooter can be.

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Is there any better way to celebrate a couple’s undying love and devotion for one another than with a zombie wedding cake ? There is not. As you can see, the cake features the lovely couple on top fighting off a horde of the undead with chainsaws . Can you say romantic ? This reminds me of the time I took a girl out in highschool and accidentally ran over a bum with my dad’s car on the way to makeout point and made he swear she’d never tell anybody I received straight A’s and gave a speech at the graduation ceremony. Whew, good recovery, GW. Hit the jump for a shot of the lucky couple whose marriage may or may not end in a 911 call about a domestic stabbing (it’s totally going to).

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‘Tis The Season: For A Zombie Wedding Cake

Check out almost any classical violinist, and you might notice that the instruments they use are based on designs first created over 300 years ago. World class players are even willing to pay millions to own an original instrument from the great 17th century Italian masters like Antonio Stradivari. If you wanted to cross an ocean at great speed you wouldn’t go looking for a 17th century ship, so why do we still use 300 year old violins ? Surely by using modern design techniques and 21st century materials, we can create a better sounding instrument than a bunch of Italian guys using old bits of wood and some varnish. That’s the thinking behind the Gavari Semiacoustic Violin from Austrian designer Gerda Hopfgartner. Working with a Viennese luthier, Hopfgartner took her inspiration from modern yachts, as well as “feminine curves and sundry corset outlines of the Baroque, Rococo, and Biedermeier ages” whatever that means. While the results certainly look cool and modern, I’m still waiting for a verdict on its sonic performance. The Gavari violin is being shown this weekend at the Tokyo Designers Week exhibition.

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Gavari violin fast forwards instrument design by 300 years

This is a shot in a series of photographs on Flickr titled ‘365 Days of Stormtroopers’, which features a new picture of Stormtroopers enjoying a day off every day from April 3rd, 2009 to April 3rd, 2010 (I guess every day’s a vacation since the destruction of the second Death Star ). There are currently 210 pictures in the series and every one is very well done. Granted, not as well done as this tauntaun burger, but I like my meat like I like ex’s house: burnt. Hit the jump for a couple more of my favorites and another link to the massive Flickr gallery.

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Gallery of Stormtroopers On Their Day Off

Weird headsets that read people’s minds? It sounds like dystopian science fiction, but these gadgets (helped by a little old-fashioned muscle measurement ) are set to be the holiday season’s hot toys. The promised future, of mind games that lapse into punishing tension headaches, is finally upon us. If you’re old enough to remember the early 1980s, you’d be forgiven a degree of skepticism. Atari’s Mindlink introduced the headband form factor and some of the tech seen in its modern counterparts, but didn’t even get the chance to be a pioneering flop. Atari Museum describes it so : The headband would read resistance from muscles in the users forehead and interpret them into commands on the screen. … Atari was ahead of its time with innovations such as these and given time for refinement and newer design technologies the idea of the Mindlink system would’ve grown into a successful peripheral. A version of Breakout was developed, but the gaming biz hit hard times and Mindlink was canned before it went into production. Times change, however, just as technology moves on and patents lapse. By the mid-2000s, other companies developed their own mind-controlled toys, which started cropping up at trade events like the Consumer Electronics Show. NeuroSky is most prominent of the newcomers, scoring licensing deals with Sega Toys and Square Enix. I got brains-on with a prototype for Wired : The prototype headgear is hacked into pairs of headphones, and measures baseline brainwave activity, said to provide an insight into states of relaxation and anxiety … Liu continually tells me to remain calm, to calm my thoughts, to think of calm, but all I want to do is crush enemies with desks. It’s hard to describe the experience. I was able to maintain a high level of whatever it actually measured but it didn’t seem to be calmness. … “It’s like flexing a muscle you didn’t know you had,” Liu said. Neurosky plans educational gear to help attention-deficit youngsters learn focus, but gaming is where the hype is. It’s not the only company aiming to develop brainwave toys, either: Hitachi has a brain-controlled model railroad in its lab , and Emotiv has partnered with Intel as it works on its own rig–its design has 14 electrodes to NeuroSky’s one, but remains a specialist product. There’s also Mindball , a $20,000 table game built on similar principles. Now, how about those toys? Here’s what you can buy, right now. Star Wars Force Trainer Mattel’s $80 Force Trainer ” fulfills a fantasy everyone has had, using The Force ,” says Lucasfilm’s Howard Roffman. The aim of the game: concentrate hard enough for a ball to rise to the top of a perspex tube. Star Wars sound effects indicate the state of play, and add licensed flavor.

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The “Opera,” designed by Belgian architect Axel Enthoven, takes obvious cues from the the Sydney Opera House in Australia. We can’t fault it for that, either — it’s downright gorgeous. It’s just as luxurious inside as it is out, according to the designer: “…every conceivable luxury: two first class and electrically adjustable beds that become one with a single simple movement, hot and cold water, ceramic toilet, LED lighting and a mobile hob and barbecue, for example, for cooking outside.” What’s more, it’s not just a flight of fancy, either. A small number of Operas will be produced in 2010, and will likely fetch a pretty penny. Check out more in the gallery below.

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A company called Vioguard has created a motorized keyboard that lives in its own little sterilizing-UV-light-shinin’ box that kills germs while it’s not in use. Need the keyboard? Waving your hand in front of an IR sensor will bring it out, so there’s no button to get dirty. Do me a favor: look down at your keyboard. When was the last time you cleaned it? I’m guessing never. Yet it’s probably one of the dirtiest gizmos you own. It’s not such a big issue for the home user, but compound that problem in places where a keyboard sees a multitude of different hands — or, like in a hospital, where it needs to be clean — and suddenly I’m feeling a little sick to my stomach. And now do me another favor: look into your wallet. Don’t have $900, huh? Me, either. A dirty keyboard it is! Check out the video below for a demonstration.

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Bonkers $900 motorized keyboard disinfects itself

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shows us that a nixie tube watch is probably a better idea in theory than it is in practice. It’s so bulky. Sure looks like a lot of trouble he has to go through just to change the time zone. Never mind that, if they could just make these things a whole lot smaller, we’d really be lusting after one. Woz also talks about how his fellow passengers start to get worried when he adjusts his nixie watch, which to the uninitiated might look like a crude bomb triggering device. Also of interest is how he can smuggle a ceramic knife on board an aircraft without being arrested. We weren’t aware he flew commercial. Via Medgadget

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Wozniak shows off his nixie tube watch