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A hole in your body - amaze and impress your engineering friends with this low-cost Halloween costume

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 28, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 07:03
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It's special effects on a budget and, if you like gaping holes through your stomach, it looks fantastic.

Evan Booth shows us all how it is done.   A portable DVD player attached to his stomach actually displays a live video image from a camera mounted on his back - so it shows what's behind him, giving the illusion of a gaping hole through his chest.

hole through body costume illusion

Halloween costume hole through body

You don't have to be a zombie. Want to be Goldie Hawn in "Death Becomes Her"? You can do that alsi, The possibilities are...well, not endless. But a lot.

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