The Engadget Halloween Costume Contest

A handful of foolios totally showed all of us up last year with their fancy iPod costumes, so this Halloween we're expecting Team Engadget to represent in our First Annual Engadget Halloween Costume Contest. We're not looking for the scariest costume, we're looking for some super gadgety, teched-out costumes — we want to see people dressed up like Treos, laptops, PSPs, whatever.

Here are the prizes:

• First place: A new 30GB iPod (with video)

• Second place: An unlocked Motorola RAZR V3

• Three runners-up will each win one of three Tokyo Flash watches

You'll get points for creativity, complexity, and, to a certain extent, obscurity (translation: we don't want to see three dozen iPod nano costumes, though we wouldn't mind seeing a really amazing iPod nano costume).

Official details:

• You have until Tuesday, November 1st, 11:59pm EST to submit your entry

• Send all entries to us at [e-mail]

• The contest is open to anyone anywhere

• You have to be able to prove that it's your handiwork

• You can enter multiple times, but you can only win a maximum of one prize

[mrqcho @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Something kinda like this?
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~jwinick/Halloween2004/
(fully functional iPod costume)

That's not me btw.. just in case..

I think putting it on a box type of costume would've looked way better though.

[jayarr_the_motherfcuking_superstar @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

why is the second and third prize better than the first?

[retro @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

OMFG I just got the best idea for a costume EVER.

You guys wait until Tuesday. *grins*

[Leomar @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

pretty cool costume, now I wish I could actually build a box into huge psp in 8 days.

[TIMMAH! @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

The Nano costumes are bad because they scratch too easily...

[toadvomit @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

there should be a special jury prize for whoever has the guts to show up at a halloween party in a gizmondo costume

[Steven Roberts @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

You wouldn't want to see me in a Gizmondo costume.

[Soopergooman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

got u beat number 3. leomar

[Soopergooman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

got u beat number 3. leomar

[Soopergooman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

got u beat number 3. leomar

[Iskra @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

How about some bleeding scratched nanos? ;)

[PJ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

can we just make like a concept sketch.......

[sadida @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

The engadget pumpkin is cool, but so is the Mozilla pumpkin I carved a few years ago.

http://sadida.com/mozilla_pumpkin.html

[Brian Crago @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

http://www.noiseinthechannel.com/pictures/canon/Halloween_2004.IMG_0246.jpg

That was mine last year. I wont best costume at work.

[Greg Cristal @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

i am gonna submit my pic soon, I gutted the monitor to my old P166 elonex : god knows why cos it still works and took an axe to the bottom. Stuck a keyboard round my neck and sellotaped a mousemat and mouse to my sleeve. I got into several photoshoots on the way to a halloween party last weekend, thats the last time I take public transport dressed as a PC!!!

[Robb Dunewood (RIMarkable) @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

This is not my idea but here is a pretty cool costume where a person is dressed up as a BlackBerry.

http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/367

[Robert Stutts @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

great

[vectorbug @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

I didnt think of it until today, but if I had thought of it earlier I would have gone as Jonathan Ive. Gray t-shirt, black jeans, boots, short hair and stubble, carrying around my ibook shipping box and ipod.

[Brendan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

In honor of the Microsoft (MSDN) Channel 9 Guy, this year I created my own 9 Guy costume and even a little strip introducing it over at: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=132034

[Jony 4.5 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Why shouldent people dress up as a gizmondo?

[Joseph Chapman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

Guys... iPod cotumes were cool the first 300 times but now its just plain old and uncreative. So do something more clever than an iPod. (No, not a Rio you smart-asses)

[Michael Green @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

none

[john tylko @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

when will the winner be announced?

[Mikael @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

To bad that I'm not skinny enough to dress up like a nano... guess I'll go as OEM PMP again, at least I'll have a reason to black out early then.

[Dagon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

I didn't think of it until after halloween but how cool would a costume of a dolphin with a dart gun on its head be?

[Niche Marketer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM]

lol Brendan, your costume is the best :)