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$1,000 'guyPhone' costumes functional

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (UPI) -- A pair of Florida men who spent $1,000 each turning themselves into "guyPhones" for Halloween said they are making the money back in costume contests.

John Savio, 24, and Reko Rivera, 23, of Palm Harbor, who created their man-sized iPhone costumes out of 42-inch flatscreen TVs, battery packs, actual iPhones with their displays connected to the TVs and plenty of chrome vinyl, said they have already won $500 and a Hard Rock Hotel & Casino gift card from a costume contest at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, Fla., the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported.

The two men, who are entering their second costume contest Saturday at Tampa's Guavaween and Holiday's Slim & Chubbies Bar and Grill, said the fully functional costumes have also become a hit online, with a YouTube video of the "guyPhones" dancing has been viewed by more than 320,000 visitors.

"We do what makes us happy," Rivera said. "And this makes us happy."

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 10/30/2009

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