Forget sexy kittens and pirates, these clever costumes inspired by the tech world will make you the talk of the party!
- Spinning Wheel of Death
Apple Mac OS X's infamous spinning wait cursor or otherwise known as the spinning wheel of death is the perfect costume for Mac users. Want it to look scarier? Add a scythe to your ensemble to get that full “wheel of death” feel.
Trivia: Earlier versions of the Mac OS wait cursor include a wristwatch and a counting hand.
- The Cloud
Be the fluffiest techie in the party by coming in as “the cloud”. Cloud computing definitely never looked this cute.
Trivia: The term cloud computing was referenced as early as 1996 but it was Amazon who popularized the term in 2006 when it introduced Elastic Compute Crowd.
- Error 404
For the truly lazy ones, the Error 404 (Not Found error message) costume is perfect for you. All you need are white shirt and black pentel pen.
Trivia: The 'Error 404' message was used in the May 2011 Greek protests, one slogan read “Error 404: Democracy not found.”
- QR code
Hit two birds with one stone by dressing up as a QR code! Not only do you have a costume, but you can also use the QR code to shamelessly promote your social media profile.
Trivia: The QR code system was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave. It was originally used to track vehicles during manufacture.
- Floppy Disk
Bring back the diskette from the grave by coming to the party as a floppy disk.
Trivia: The earliest floppy disk developed in the late 1960s was 8 inches in diameter.
- Steve Jobs
Another costume idea for those who don't want to bother changing into an actual costume. Epitomize “effortless fashion (?)” with this ensemble.
Trivia: Steve Jobs' iconic outfit was a result of a trip to Japan. In the early 1980s, Jobs met with Sony chairman Akio Morita and while touring the Sony office, he noticed that factory employees wore uniforms. Morita told Jobs that the uniforms were brought about by the lack of clothes after the war, so big companies like Sony had to give their employees something to wear. The uniforms eventually became a way of bonding workers to the company. Armed with this inspiration, Jobs called Issey Miyake, the same designer who made the uniforms at Sony and commissioned him to make a couple of sample uniforms for Apple. However, when Jobs presented the uniforms to Apple employees, he was booed off the stage. Jobs had to drop the idea. But during the process, Jobs became good friends with Miyake and warmed up to the idea of having his own uniform. So he then asked Miyake to make him some of his black turtlenecks (which Jobs already liked). Miyake, in turn made Jobs a hundred of it.
- Twitter's Fail Whale
Twitter's now defunct Fail Whale is a great way to reminisce those times where Twitter's servers couldn't handle your online blabbing.
Trivia: The “fail whale” was created by Yiying Lu, an artist and designer based in Australia. It was originally intended to be a virtual birthday card until Lu decided to put it on iStockPhoto.com where Twitter co-founder Biz Stone found it.
- Snapchat Ghost
If you wanna go for “traditional Halloween character with a modern twist”, then there's no other perfect icon than Snapchat's mascot, “Ghostface Chillah”.
Trivia: Snapchat's mascot, “Ghostface Chillah" was named after Ghostface Killah of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
