Giant iPhones invade Florida A trio of Floridians have created a pair of Halloween costumes sure to melt the hearts of even the most jaded Apple fanbois: working, wearable, human-sized iPhones. Unemployed former Apple employee John Savio, actor/DJ Reko Rivera, and carpenter John Matthews mounted a pair of 42-inch LCD TVs in sandwich-board frames and …
... Dadgum, the potential for leaving a mark is immense with having to wear a suit that weighs six flippin' stone. Even my phat arse is going to struggle carrying that kind of heavy tech around all night. Also, like h311 am I going to be caught dead with a freakin' lead-acid battery dangling so close to the family jewels like that. I can see the headline now: "Giant iPhone blokes in hospital for herniated groins and acid burns on the members". No thank you, methinks I'll pass...
Paris, on the other hand, may enjoy a kit like that for the other things you could clip to that dangling 12 volt battery...
I met both of them at the first costume contest they won at Skipper's Smokehouse here in Tampa Florida. $500.00 and tickets to some local event.
My point for commenting here is twofold. You lot should be aware that up close and personal they seemed every bit the geeks that would do such a thing as this.
And really, where would we be today without this sort?
My first guess says agrarian autonomous collective.
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Oh yes, wasting their time making costumes, winning money and having fun when they could be here on their fat asses typing about how sad the "poor bastards" who actually have lives outside of The Register and Slashdot" are.
And of course, nobody would ever dress as a Win Mobile phone. And if they did, no one would care. Maybe that's why you are being such an ass.
Personally I prefer a lighter costume.
They're going to make the $2000 back easily?
That means they got 2 42" LCD screens for free... And people are calling them sad? This is genius.
It takes a special kind of mind to think "You know those costume contests they have at bars and clubs? Couldn't we just build a costume so complicated and outrageous that they have no choice but to give us the prize money. We could make a lot of money from that"
I dunno ... mount the TV on 2, long U-shaped pipes that hung over the shoulders down to the floor, put little wheels on the ends, mount the battery between the back supports below your bum to counter-balance the weight of the screen, it'd probably be easy enought to move about in.
Or am I giving this too much thought?
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