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iPad 2 + iPad 2 + fake blood = awesome "hole in torso" costume

by Mike Schramm Oct 30th 2011 at 4:00PM

We'll have more costumes today and tomorrow, but this one was too good to not share right now. YouTube user onemeeeliondollars has posted video of a costume he apparently made with two iPad 2s that makes it look like you can see clean through his torso. As he says in the video below, you just cut two holes in a shirt (that's how you make every great Halloween costume -- just ask Charlie Brown), put a little fake blood around them, and then strap two iPad 2s to yourself (they have to be iPad 2s, of course, for the camera).

Then, he set both iPad 2s to run a FaceTime call between them, and voila -- one iPad 2 outputs the video of the other, and vice versa, and you get (kind of) an optical illusion where you can see right through a person.

Ok yes, it's a little hokey, it doesn't quite work perfectly, and you might be risking your iPad 2s (not to mention that your networking setup has to be tuned for your trick or treat route or the party you're attending; for his costume, he says he's using mobile WiFi). As he also points out in the video, if the costume itself isn't fascinating enough, they double as, you know, actual iPad 2s.




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Michael

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January 18 2012 at 2:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

@jay... BRILLIANT, MATE!

Red paint and duct tape near TWO iPads? What a groovy idea for the overprivileged.

November 09 2011 at 5:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jay

And then I mugged your ass

November 02 2011 at 12:40 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
digitalsedition

While this is definitely cool, I think it might make more sense if the developer had actually aligned the screens so that looking at the torso would look like looking through the torso instead of the upper back.

October 31 2011 at 10:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Terrypun

Cool!
Try an array of iPads front and back - like 4 wide and 8 high... Making an invisibility cloak that Harry Potter could use.

October 31 2011 at 7:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Riccardo Merlo

Ah ah ah awesome idea!

October 31 2011 at 4:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris L

should have done an iPhone up front since the entry wound would be smaller anyway ;)

October 30 2011 at 8:40 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Ron D.

Couldn't you use the application "Camera for iPad"? You can connect the devices via Bluetooth. Though I wonder how long the screen lag will be between the two devices.

October 30 2011 at 8:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tali

I did this last year using two iPod touch's and my jailbroken iPhone 4 to create the wifi hotspot. I was planning on doing this again this year with my iPad 2's but maybe not.

October 30 2011 at 5:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark Mazur

Thats only a 1050 dollar costume with a 2 year commitment to the carrier of your choice at $50 dollars a month giving you a grand total of 2250 dollars. Great idea!

October 30 2011 at 5:04 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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