halloween

It may not win any awards for audio performance, but just in time for Halloween, Steve Meade Designs stuffed a Rockford Fosgate Punch 8-inch subwoofer in a carved-out pumpkin.

Check out these Web videos Steve Meade Designs posted on Facebook and YouTube. The top video shows how the speaker was actually made. The second video shows how the pumpkin subwoofer performs.

I dressed up as a train engineer for a Halloween party, and it took half an hour to get the straps on my overalls adjusted right. Life would have been a lot easier if I had just gone with a QR code like Reddit user adriannezy.

She works in an IT department and wanted to participate in Halloween at an absolute minimum level. So she went with a QR code on her shirt.

The QR code links to a photo of her in a Star Trek costume that looks like a cross between Uhura and Spock. This represents geek chic on multiple levels.… Read more

We can't remember the last time it snowed on Halloween weekend, but the cold weather kept all but one of us from dressing up today. Tune in to see who conjured up the spirits of Halloween!… Read more

Halloween is supposed to be a time of foreboding.

Monsters will creep up behind you and frighten you. Zombies from a Michael Jackson music video will haunt you, just as you sip your margarita.

But Google is too nice to do that. Googlies are lovely people who just want the world to be a more beautiful and scientific place.

So the Halloween Google doodle is a sweet, innocent affair.

On the Google blog, doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino explains that she and her fellow scribblers got a hold of half a dozen pumpkins from Half Moon Bay, Calif., and spent 8 hours … Read more

Sometimes engineers really are quite marvelous.

They think of things that no one else will think of, and those things turn out to actually be useful. Or, in very rare cases, amusing too.

Here is something that is both immensely utilitarian and entirely engaging.

NASA engineer Mark Rober used some red sauce and two iPad 2s in order to pretend, at whatever Halloween convention he might be attending, that he has a vast, open, and bloody wound through the core of his torso.

It is, as he says, simple. You tear a hole in your least favorite sweatshirt. You plant … Read more

ERIN, Wisc.--Break out the proton packs and keep an eye out for "orbs." We're going ghost hunting.

Obviously, Halloween is the season for haunted houses, so I decided to visit an alleged real one with the sort of ghost investigators we see all over TV these days on shows like "Most Haunted," "Paranormal State," and "Ghost Hunters." Viewers enjoy plenty of green-tinted night vision video and grown-ups taunting would-be poltergeists in empty rooms, but good luck spotting proof of a ghost. In fairness, in this age of CG enhancements and photo manipulation, we could end up with a high-def image of a transparent Abe Lincoln writing, "I'm a ghost, you four-score and 20 idiots!"--and we'd scream "ILM!" I would trust only my naked eyes.

So, earlier this month I tagged along with the Washington County Paranormal to get an idea of the methods and homespun technology they use to chase down ghosts. … Read more

Halloween is a time for candy, a time for creativity, and a time for scaring the living crap out of people. The secret ingredient for creating true terror: sound.

I don't care how many Jason masks or buckets of fake blood you have, we've seen it all before. The props are played out. We're desensitized. A scary sound, however, triggers the darkest parts of our imagination in ways that are so primal, it transcends even the most shocking gore.

Don't take my word for it. Go back and watch the scariest moments of any horror film, close your eyes, and you'll realize what a huge role sound plays in making something scary. Whether it's John Carpenter's soundtrack to "Halloween" or John Williams' score to "Jaws," it's the sound that puts you on the edge of your seat. … Read more

Those of you who are shunning sexy Halloween costumes this year for something more creative can get a little help from the YouTube community.

YouTube has been a popular place for the do-it-yourself crowd to exchange tips on pretty much everything under the sun. So it's a no-brainer that it's also a gold mine of costume ideas and how-tos.

From horrifying to adorable, we've selected some of our favorite tutorials for this Halloween.

This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com. … Read more

Halloween is just around the corner and adding a little festive flavor to your Android can be fun.

A spooky wallpaper, some ghostly ringtones or background noises, and even some scary games are easy to get and use on Android. Here's how to add all these things to your device for free this weekend:

First you'll want to set the scene. What better to use for this than a live wallpaper that has a Halloween theme?

Halloween Live Wallpaper is a great one to start with. This LWP has a small wrought-iron fence with skulls … Read more