Digital Photo Urn is just too creepy to be useful

If you're somehow able to gaze upon the Digital Photo Urn without emotion, you'll find a fairly useful product. Still, we can't help but be a little creeped out by the notion. Nevertheless, those with differing views can certainly procure one of their own, which was meant specifically to hold the remains (or at least some of them) of your lost pet and continually show pictures of its life on the built-in 7-inch display. In case you're still not freaked out, the unit even supports audio, so you can "hear the precious barks, whines and purrs anytime." At this point, we highly doubt you care about the 256MB of integrated storage space, USB connectivity or Oak / Walnut motifs, but those not shaken can secure one now for around $250.

[Via picturesnob, thanks Jay]

[hrt @ May 20th 2008 10:36AM]

Thats... REALLY weird. I know I would love my old Cat to be back, but not as some remained filled cyborg box.

[Jimbo @ May 20th 2008 2:12PM]

Oh come on! My cat's dying to get in one of these!

Get it? heheheh

[LondonConsultant @ May 20th 2008 2:40PM]

I'm sure Schrodinger would approve...

[Flashpoint @ May 20th 2008 10:39AM]

Someday it will be aceptable to have digital video storage/playback units for the remains of dead human beings. - just like it was on Star Trek when Tasha Yar died and we saw her holographic image played back.

But, for right now, it is seen as a cheesy tech gimmick which won't be acceptable socially until Apple releases its new "iTombs".


I personally think we waste far too much land on cemeterys and i'd love to see humans returned to the earth as dust rather than boxed up and taking up even more space than they did when they were alive.

[hrt @ May 20th 2008 10:56AM]

iTombs... I lol'd.

[Pochi @ May 20th 2008 11:00AM]

"...taking up even more space than they did when they were alive."

I don't know about you, but I am probably not going to be buried within a pyramid.

[Dave @ May 20th 2008 10:40AM]

Wow. At the risk of sounding insensitive, couldn't you just glue a standard digital frame onto a box?

[Will @ May 20th 2008 10:41AM]

The audio was were it went bad for me. Since I already have an urn full of powdered dog and several of his pictures on my mantel, the rest of the product was actually okay.

[Eric Kelly @ May 20th 2008 12:40PM]

lol powedered dog. I apologize, but it sounds funny the way you put it.

[Joe @ May 20th 2008 12:57PM]

I think they're actually freeze-drying them now, the same way they deal with astronauts when they die.

I've got a space picked out for John Glenn in my lunchbox, right next to my ice cream.

[chad @ May 20th 2008 10:42AM]

Pets were not the first remains I was thinking of.

[Kurian @ May 20th 2008 11:06AM]

Your chopped up girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared?

[Ethan @ May 20th 2008 10:46AM]

This made me think of this far too much;

http://www.marktrevorsmith.net/GardenState/GardenStateGraveyard.jpg

I think you need a ceremony to mark somebody's passing, maybe as a family scattering the ashes of a beloved pet, but sticking a corpse in a box is even worse than the ground, it's a bit wrong!

'Here lies floppy, not really living up to his name'

[brickwood @ May 20th 2008 10:48AM]

This blog gives me deja vu of a simillar post... can anyone help me out here?..

"At this point, we highly doubt you care about the 256MB of integrated storage space, USB connectivity.."

That part really rings a bell.

[d @ May 20th 2008 10:49AM]

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Yeah, go ahead and rate me low. I just had to get it out of my system.

[webon @ May 20th 2008 10:58AM]

stress much?

[JJV @ May 20th 2008 3:45PM]

retard much?

[Kurian @ May 20th 2008 11:03AM]

I want my ashes to be put inside my Antec Titan case, with the Call of Duty 4 DVD in the drive.

[JJV @ May 20th 2008 3:45PM]

well arent you the cool one -.-

[Sherrie @ May 20th 2008 11:08AM]

I think they could have at least made it in the shape of a doghouse. That would at least be something attractive to look at.

As for the audio, can you buy a "No Bark" citrinella collar to go around the Urn?

[David Vogt @ May 20th 2008 11:12AM]

I wonder how you would send it in for repairs if something breaks...

[Munkcy @ May 20th 2008 11:19AM]

"...ok, now grab a Ziploc bag and pour Fluffy's ashes into it. Make sure you label the bag to avoid anyone confusing the ashes with something edible."

[Munkcy @ May 20th 2008 11:22AM]

Also, if it did break, I hope there would be some sort of status indicator showing that it broke, perhaps a red ring. This way the phrase "Red Ring of Death" would be appropriate on multiple levels.

[edzy @ May 20th 2008 11:20AM]

"lol -... Hmmmm..... " I think this is from the "You knew it was coming file." I can see people going for this. Especially the way people are with their pets and the younger Generation and all their digital stuff.( digital everything even the funeral but I'll be late for it because I have an analog watch)

What would really wierd me out about these things would be :
1. the old lady with all the cats having a wall full of these.
2. Walking into some ones house and these are placed all around the house in different rooms. (I think we have a sci-fi winner.....or a murder mystery key piece of evidence)
3. These become large pieces of furniture . like the base of a coffee table or an ottoman. " a separate compartment so each set of ashes can rest in the comfort of your own home. it also comes with a 1080P lcd screen so you can enjoy your memories in HD"
4. any of the above with all the pictures are of the deceased eyes looking in different directions.

[Jaymez @ May 20th 2008 11:29AM]

If I had a mantel, I'd have gone for one of these when ordering my dad's urn.

[WiiTodd @ May 20th 2008 11:32AM]

"accommodating pets from 0-75 lbs" Where's the people size? This is a great place to put my grandma.

[SiliconDoc @ May 20th 2008 12:03PM]

It already freaks me out how people have intense love affairs with their hairy, smelly, stinking, crapping, peeing pets. The K-9 "officer" is spoken of as one of the Family, and has more rights than human citizens.
We now have draconian 3,5 and 10 year prison sentences, and whole teams of police officers to hunt down and incarcerate "animal abusers".
Then you hear so many pet owners claim they like their pets better than any human beings, and then some different social babbling professional expert claims it's because pets give unconditional love. ( I guess they've never heard of biting ).
Now these freaks who need animals more than humans, have their talking cemetary boxes. Heck, we already went through the Pet Cemetary stage, and " All Dogs Go to Heaven" propaganda.
I have no idea how many TV series are based on luvie dovie doggy and cat home videos, or this or that doggy whispering show, but ever since Jane Goodall started "oooh oooohing" like a rain forest Baboon or Primate in front of the US Congress, this trend was set in solid motion.
I believe they now have pets suing their owners, next will be a class action suit by the animals rights activists and the trial lawyers with fetishes.
The strangest thing of all is almost every one of these people eat red meat on a daily basis, which means some similar animal just got slaughtered very recently for their chow. I wonder how much these same would freak over in asia where cat and dogs are the daily chow for everyone ? They'ed probably want to slaughter the people, then pet their tiny wooden picture box, and talk to their dead best friend, and answer it's barking or mewwing.
We have too many over the edge here nowadays.
If you leave a doggie in the car lot with just a cracked window, the COPS are ready, they carry an ambient thermometer, and will break your car window, take a temp reading, confiscate your dear, dear family member (pet, for those not insane with the accepted animal husbandry issues), and you'll go to prison for three years.
Yep, I'm surprised it isn't an entire sarcophagus with intricate etchings and a Millennial Pyramid structure and afterlife water dish and treats containers.

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[Tim @ May 20th 2008 1:02PM]

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[Merak @ May 20th 2008 12:29PM]

I'd love to have an animated image of a cat on there knocking on the screen mewing "Let me out, I still have 7 lives left!"

[Jettie @ May 20th 2008 1:16PM]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! God, that's so good!

What I was wondering is when the heck people get *audio* of their pets?! I love my animals (had a pet semetary ((spelt incorrectly on purpose)) of my own in my back yard), and I've got photos of them all, but I never once stopped and said, "Okay Kitty, meow into the microphone! It's gonna play when you die!" That part kinds creeps me out.

Other than the audio part, it totally reminded me of this: http://www.livescience.com/technology/ap_050908_video_tombstones.html

[LarryLarryLarry @ May 20th 2008 6:09PM]

Or more simply, just a side-view of the inside of the urn, half-filled with ashes like an aquarium. That would be the ultimate screen-saver!

[Josh @ May 20th 2008 1:23PM]

Why not just use it as a handy box with a digital photo frame on it..

Hell, am i the only one that uses a coffin to store my brooms?

[Petee @ May 20th 2008 2:01PM]

haha quality!

[kombizz @ May 21st 2008 3:18AM]

what would happen if don't have any pets?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/sets/