With only eight costume-shopping days left until Halloween, many of you are likely still desperately searching for ideas. For some of you, inspiration will never come, and you’ll end up buying a mylar helium balloon and going as “Balloon Boy”. Others of you have undoubtedly been planning your costume since July. But for those who want a cool costume, but don’t have any good ideas, why not consider unleashing your inner geek and dressing as your favorite bit of technology?

Like with any costume idea, there is a whole spectrum of effort levels that you could put into this.  At one end is the cardboard-and-spraypaint technique. Just choose your favorite gadget, buy $20 worth of supplies, and go to it.

If you want to sink a little more time, moolah and creativity into it, that’s great too. Just check out the costumes in this iPhone and Gadget photo gallery to get a few ideas, but don’t be surprised if yours isn’t the only iCostume at the party.

At then waaaay over there at the extreme end of the effort spectrum, is this guy. These are a couple years old and you may have seen them before, but if you really want to feel bad about your own costume idea, check out his Power Loader, Mech and APU (from the Matrix movies) “outfits”. Obviously he has way too much time on his hands, but he uses it to be incredibly awesome, so more power to him.

Of course, if your favorite tech gadget hasn’t inspired you enough to want to dress as it, maybe it can still be of some assistance. For only $1.99, this iPhone costume-finder app could help. You enter some vital statistics, age, gender, etc., and it will tell you what you should dress up as. For your sake, just hope it doesn’t tell you to whip up a quick Power Loader costume in the next eight days.

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Tags: costumes, Halloween, Technology

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