Found Footage: iPhone costumes
These guys didn't actually send these costumes in for our Halloween costume gallery, but if they had, we would definitely have put them in it. They actually have LCD TVs strapped to them (using PVC pipe and ratchet straps), and apparently those TVs are hooked up to real video iPods-- they edited the display video themselves. The suits also weigh about 60 pounds, which is about how much candy you'll probably be able to get if you really do go around the neighborhood in one of these.
And it's a pretty good representation of the iPhone, too, even if it is a little... bulkier than the real thing. These guys are award-winning, too-- one of their Myspace pages brags that they've won the "Guavaween costume contest," whatever that is. Congrats!
[via Neatorama]
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(Page 1)2. When I saw this on FSJ's blog yesterday, I thought to myself "they must be Apple employees." They didn't edit the video themselves, it's the same video that plays on the huge iPhone displays in storefront windows. In the stores, they've got Mac Pro towers running the video out to the screens. I somehow doubt they're doing it from an iPod, since it's got to be displayed on a rotated screen.
Posted at 7:59PM on Oct 30th 2007 by punkassjim
3. Well it's pretty obvious you'd rotate the video before you got it on the iPod... the long and narrow iPhone makes better use of a rotated 16x9 screen anyway..
4. Yikes. Do they have multiple car batteries under there to power that big screen?
I'll bet they need some back surgery soon.
Posted at 8:48PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Gene Cowan
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1. Guavaween is a longstanding Halloween celebration in the Tampa, Florida area with a night parade through Ybor City (an old originally Cuban immigrant neighborhood but more of a nightclub spot now). Kinda with a Mardi Gras flavor.
Posted at 7:57PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Eric Taylor