Still not sure what to dress up as for Halloween this year? Well, instead of frantically scrambling around town looking for the right shop with the right stuff, have you considered 3D printing your Halloween costume? Check out our list of 3D-printable masks and costume pieces to get all geared up for this year’s spooking, then fire up that printer.
If you’ve already finished your costume and want to get started on your scary movie watchlist, we’ve put together a list of the best horror movies on Netflix.
This one is so simple it’s almost cheating. All you need to finish it off is some black and white spray paint and a pink jumpsuit — the latter of which might actually be the hardest part of this costume to procure.
Colonel Joe Moore, better known as Immortan Joe, is the primary antagonist of Mad Max: Fury Road. He was the lord of the Citadel and the leader of the fanatical War Boys — but you don’t have to be a Mad Max enthusiast to appreciate how creepy this mask is.
Stormtrooper costumes are as common as pigeons these days, so why not rise above the low-ranking white helmets with this superb Death Trooper Mask?
This one pairs nicely with some purple body paint, big muscles, and incessant commenting about how everything at the party you’re attending is “perfectly balanced, as everything should be.” Just don’t get carried away and push your daughter off a cliff.
Rick has been a popular Halloween costume ever since the premiere of Rick and Morty, so just be prepared to run into somebody else with the same costume. If that happens, be sure to assert your dominance by proclaiming that you are Rick C-137: The smartest of all Ricks in the multiverse.
For a different approach to a classic costume, go as the confused Stanley Ipkiss from Jim Carrey’s The Mask — pre-green face.
Need a mask to tie together your shaman or wendigo outfit? This full fox skull is just the trick. It’s definitely one of the larger prints in this list, but the two-part jaw with a fully articulated lower mandible is definitely worth the filament you’ll burn through. We promise!
This one is great because it allows you to walk around like you own the place, speak in a silly voice, and explain to everyone at the party that they were merely raised in the darkness — you were born in it.
Need more than just a mask? Well, if you don’t mind spending a few hundred bucks on filament, paint, and electronics; you can print this full Iron Man suit right at home. You may have to save this one for next year — the headpiece can be finished in a day or so, but the rest of the suit will probably take a couple weeks of printing to complete.
Got a bun in the oven this year and hoping to plan a costume around that? This simple three-part print is designed to slip under your shirt, and is practically guaranteed to get you some double takes!
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.
Platforms tend to shrug off AI clutter until it threatens what they sell. For Etsy, that thing is trust in the maker.
To protect that, Etsy has banned AI-generated how-to guides and listings made entirely by bots. Most sellers must show at least one unretouched photo of the item (via Etsy Seller Handbook).