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Video Tombstones

Posted by samzenpus on from the dead-tv dept.

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."

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  1. Hmm... by Musteval · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the feed live from inside the coffin?

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    1. Re:Hmm... by CrazyTalk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Funny, but even funnier would be to have a video playing on continuous loop of someone trying to claw their way out.

    2. Re:Hmm... by garcia · · Score: 3, Funny

      The worms come in, the worms go out.

      I thought it was running Linux? If you wanted to watch worms make sure they have the LCD running unpatched Windows ;)

    3. Re:Hmm... by peculiarmethod · · Score: 3, Funny

      even FUNNIER would be a montage of Jenna Jamesons life, then the current state of her implants.

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    4. Re:Hmm... by SenorAmor · · Score: 3, Funny
      The worms come in, the worms go out.

      I thought it was running Linux? If you wanted to watch worms make sure they have the LCD running unpatched Windows ;)
      I think we need to worry about zombies and not worms. ;)
    5. Re:Hmm... by zephc · · Score: 4, Funny

      even FUNNIER: "I've heard of a 'dead pixel', but this is ridiculous!."

      Isn't that right, Hecubus?

      Yes, Master!

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    6. Re:Hmm... by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Finally, a blue screen of death with teeth...

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    7. Re:Hmm... by Luigi30 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, and it's got picture-in-picture so you can watch basketball!

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  2. Fun to be had by all... by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Purchase plot, headstone
    2. Make video of you screaming, clawing at the lid of coffin
    3. ???
    4. Horrify others!
    1. Re:Fun to be had by all... by zoomzit · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wonderful. Now mom can nag me from the grave.

  3. Slashdot's epitaph... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot's epitaph will read "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

  4. if it runs Windoze... by TheLevelHeadedOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Top Tombstones by markov_chain · · Score: 5, Funny

    I call dibs on watching Jenna Jameson's tombstone!

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    1. Re:Top Tombstones by middlemen · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do you think that when her dead body decomposes, and turns into just bones, the silicone implants will still be there ?

  6. If I'm ever buried under one of these things... by devorama · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. What about ... by PriceIke · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:Free LCDs! by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > Hmm let's see. Large areas of land with little or no lighting and little or no security, filled with LCD screens... Sounds like the perfect opportunity for latenight theft.

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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."

  9. Well I know what *I* want on my tombstone by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  10. Can you imagine the massive pilgrimage... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and discarded Kleenexes around Ron Jeremy's tombstone?

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  11. Re:TombSTONEs by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pimp my tombstone!

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  12. Re:Free LCDs! by dmccarty · · Score: 3, Funny
    Speaking of the word "niggardly," there are people who get uptight if you're playing cards and you say that someone "renigged." (Okay it's actually spelled "reneged," but people pronounce it "renig" here in the Midwest.)

    So if you can renege and it's a bad thing, is it a good thing if you just nege?

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