Costume design by Lowri Best. Shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. (video link)

Earlier this year, our video production team began spitballing ideas for a Halloween costume project. They likely thought the Ars editorial crew would suggest some boilerplate pop-culture “nerd” ideas, revolving around famous sci-fi or horror characters. Instead, they sighed after reviewing our long, technically challenging list full of stuff like robotic suits and diabolical person-sized packet-sniffing devices. (It was a stab at putting the “trick” into “trick or treat.”)

In the end, we settled on a project that leans a little closer to the traditional affordable, last-minute costume ideas you’d find on the Web, though with a decent DIY tech-geek bent: your own see-through flesh wound.