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Get it? heheheh]]>May 20th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
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. ]]>May 20th 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
I don't know about you, but I am probably not going to be buried within a pyramid.]]>May 20th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
I've got a space picked out for John Glenn in my lunchbox, right next to my ice cream.]]>May 20th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
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']]>May 20th 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
"At this point, we highly doubt you care about the 256MB of integrated storage space, USB connectivity.."

That part really rings a bell.]]>May 20th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
Yeah, go ahead and rate me low. I just had to get it out of my system.]]>May 20th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
As for the audio, can you buy a "No Bark" citrinella collar to go around the Urn? ]]>May 20th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
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.]]>May 20th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/ 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.]]>May 20th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/ by
shan]]>May 20th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/by
Tim]]>May 20th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
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]]>May 20th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
Hell, am i the only one that uses a coffin to store my brooms?]]>May 20th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/May 20th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/digital-photo-urn-is-just-too-creepy-to-be-useful/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/sets/]]>May 21st 2008 3:18AM