A few years ago, a company thought they'd hit upon an
ingenious enhancement for modern cemeteries -- namely, a tombstone with an embedded video screen. The idea was that visitors to your grave-site could watch a slideshow of images, all while listening to accompanying audio (accessible via a handy headphone jack) -- like a giant, morbid iPod. You would think an idea as modern and tasteful as this one would have caught on, but apparently after years of work, maker Vidstone LLC is still not seeing the numbers. "I haven't sold any," said Doug Ellis of Riverview Monuments in Wisconsin -- a sentiment not uncommon amongst dealers. Cheri Lucking, Vidstone's national sales director says, "We don't release our sales figures," adding, "It is not a huge number at the moment." We're wondering what our forward thinking, gadget-obsessed Engadget readers think... would you drop the $2,000 for a "Serenity Panel?"
[Thanks, Lenman1]
posted December 10th 2007 7:31PM
This is so stupid! How many people can honestly say they really visit the good ole cemetary that much anyway. Hence - I am being cremated. Why take up valuable land space with my rotting corpse. All you tree huggers should think about that one. Also, my MIL died 3 years ago and my ignorant sister in law insisted in having her face engraved on the headstone - ended up costing us an additional $600. If no one really liked you when you were alive your dead mug on a stone surely isn't going to be bringing in the visitors.
This item is BANNED in most Cemeteries by LAW under the Disturbing or interfering with a funeral service bylaws.
In Manchester,NH where I worked as a caretaker for the Parks Department that also handled the City cmeteries this was a banned item due to it interfering with services ( visits ) of other burial sites and services.
A great idea banning this I for one do not wish to see or hear another persons video clips while vivitng a loved ones grave.
I think its a Great idea...
Not yet. Baby boomers are techno challenged. Maybe my kids. The texting, bloggin' Ipod, Blackberry carrying Gen-X'ers. Heck, they probably can post a MySpace page on it...
People should stop being placed in cemeteries. Its a waste of valuable real-estate plus when you're dead, its not like you're going to know where you are.
Tom Paxton's song "Forest Lawn" is coming true!!!
Why not? Funerals are for the living anyway. I want my relatives to save their money, I would just have them to throw my body in a dumpster, but I think that is against the law. Take that money and have a party on me.
Where does my wife get me one ??? I want the most expensive one they have and am going to put it in my will. I assume they will work on a mosoleum ????
I want a 'night vision' camcorder with wide angle lens buried with me so they can activate it from time to time to see me 'real time' and see how lasting of a job the mortuary did on me! Hi ma!