With Halloween approaching rapidly, geeks everywhere are scrambling for the best costume to show off their “geekyness.” I think these two have taken the cake here though.

Weighing in at 85 pounds, these costumes use 42 inch LCD TV panels, a car battery, and some pretty impressive iPhone hacking to enable dual display output. These guys are my new heroes.

(via TUAW)

I have seen some weird stuff come from Japan. Here is one perfect example. The Miruko.

It’s a robotic gaming interface meant to work with an iPhone. The eye is a robotic camera with facial recognition, and it “sees” things that are invisible in the “real world.” Things such as monsters attached to peoples faces. You can capture them with the iPhone, somewhat like Pokemon.

While the tech behind this is kind of cool, and that knitted sleeve looks pretty stylin’… I still have to ask…
Why?