Halloween Costume Idea: Pretend You Have a Portal in Your Torso

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By Eliza Strickland
Oct 27, 2010 1:09 AMNov 20, 2019 1:17 AM

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There are still a few days before Halloween costume frenzy will reach its peak, but we think we have a winner. Forget all those Lady Gaga and Chilean miner costumes: We're taken with Ben Heck's ingenious see-through portal t-shirt.

This high-tech costume makes it look like the wearer has a hole in his torso, thanks to a tiny camera on his back, and an LCD screen on his chest that shows the image captured by the camera. Want your own? Here's a blow-by-blow video of how to build it. There are a few digressions into other projects, but we encourage you to watch through and get all the info you need to avoid the fate of being just another Gaga. Related Content: Discoblog: The Best Reader Science Halloween Costume, Revealed! Discoblog: DISCOVER’s Top Ten Science Halloween Costumes, Part II Discoblog: DISCOVER’s Top Ten Science Halloween Costumes, Part I DISCOVER: Wrong By Design: Why Our Brains Are Fooled by Illusions (image gallery) Image: Ben Heck

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