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Video Tombstones
Rio writes "A new company plans to unveil new high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors that would allow visitors to play memorial videos of the deceased. Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business, plans to show the Vidstone this year at the annual funeral directors convention. The solar-powered Vidstone will play a video of the person's life at the touch of a button."
Is the feed live from inside the coffin?
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Elvis' gravesite when that happens. It'd be a nice interactive experience.
I'd go and visit Hugh Huffner's tombstone when he dies!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Does anyone else find this description disturbing?
I have this image of a cemetery filled with Mickey Mouse ears on the tombstones, little Tinkerbell figurines sticking out of the ground on metal rods, and constant background music.
It will give a whole new meaning to Blue Screen of Death when the machine dies
Thank you...thank you...thank you very much...I'll be here all week!
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I call dibs on watching Jenna Jameson's tombstone!
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please make sure the aspect ratio is correct on my video! Did anyone see the picture from the article? Wow, what a cherubic baby! It drives me nuts (in life) to see everyone one watching stretched video on their LCDs all the time. Imagine having your pet peeve playing over your former corporeal existance for eternity.
How difficult would it be to hack the playback?
I'm not sure I'd want large naked breasts swinging over my grave site for years and ... er .. hmm. Now that I think about it, maybe I would want that.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
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My vidstone will consist of a clip of Admiral Ackbar, with a voiceover saying "I told him it was a trap."
Porn. Imagine the confusion and shame of passerbies getting stiffies in a graveyard. It would delect me from beyond the grave.
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I'm really hoping not to have an immediate need...
You could make quite a powerful supercomputer clustering a whole graveyard word of processors! Or use them as Wifi Access points. Ah, the possibilities are endless... well, until they're stolen.
Father (sad): Lets watch mothers video.
Son: OK Dad.
Video Screen: GOATSE.CX!!!!
how about a web cam inside the casket?!
I guess I'll be visiting the graves of a lot more porn stars from now on.
...and discarded Kleenexes around Ron Jeremy's tombstone?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
is that this will add new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death...
Pimp my tombstone!
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How many of these will have the last scene start with the deceased saying " Hey Guys...Watch this !"
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So when it crashes, will my loved ones see the Blue Screen of the Afterlife?
About a year ago, a dead grandmother got a C&D letter from the RIAA.
Is that a Cist & Deceased letter?
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Now that's one video tombstone I don't want to see...
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Hi, umm, my tombstone won't work.
What?
There's no display on it.
OK, Have you tried rebooting it?
How do you do that?
What model headstone do you have?
I don't know, it says.... 'engraved by...'
No, no, no. Thats just the plaque on the stone. We need the model of the actual headstone. There should be something chiseled into the back of it with a model and serial numbers?
OK, .... Model HS 4EVR Dragon Plus?
Yep, thats it, ok let me look that one up,... OK, there should be a reset button on the back? Just next to the usb jack?
Got it , they were covered in some mucky stuff, looks like bird...
Yep, we get a lot of that. OK hold down the reset button for 4 seconds and tell me what comes up on the headstone?
Ok..... it's booting! oh.. it its displaying an ad for VIAGRA! You know one of those short graphic video clips they're using now?
I'm sorry, it appears that your headstone has been hacked. Unfortunately you need to bring it back to the mortuary for service.
What?! Do you know how heavy this thing is?
Well, actually that's not the real headache - you're going to need a court order to be able to legally remove the headstone first. Now I can email you the forms or would you like to sign up with our service package that includes gravesite service?
And as you tread the halls of sanity, You feel so glad to be, Unable to go beyond. I have a message, From another time..
I can see it now.
Billy Bob
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