RFID-activated retrieval system brings urns up for viewing
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 18th 2008 10:46AM
posted Aug 18th 2008 10:46AM
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DIY hack coming soon: Rigging the machine to play "Monster Mash" when a card is swiped and the urn starts rising.
i'd like to hear the 2001: a space odyssey theme song as it rises
Its like a Jukebox for Dead people.
Urn baby, urn, morbid inferno.
Creepiest. Bank. Ever.
next thing they are gonna do is online banking. just mount a webcam there!
It's already there, the CCTV
Is it just me, or is there no video coming up?
Not just you.
No, no, no. Its not another video rental vending machine. No video is supposed to come up, its all about the urn coming up.
65 Million Yen life time fee, that's US$600,000. Wow!
Its more like a little over 6,000 dollars, which is still a rip considering the ocean is free
Though the ocean is less likely to return the urn when you show up.
An empty urn is just as good as a full one.
Awesome, that must be the coolest drug stash ever invented. Nobody would think of looking for my Weed there. I so want one.
They will when you capitalize it like that...
Good look retrieving it without alarming a bunch of bystanders. Or worse, if you proceed to consume what you just pulled out of the urn.
@kr: Sorry in my language important words such as nouns are usually spelled with a capital letter and since my love for MJ is international I somehow slipped in the non-english one. Anyhow.
What do you guys think these booth like walls are for? And I don't really think there'll be a velvet rope DMV like line of people that want to look at a "can-o-grandma". I think if you placed something in the urn you'd definitely be able to walk up to the urn, touch it, probably even remove the top and then leave.
This is designed for people to "spend time" with the remains of their relatives. Usually people pray or tell stories to graves and tombstones. I would assume that this sort of privacy is given here too. Afaik the Japanese are a cautious bunch when it comes to private spaces.
wouldn't it be funny if it became sentient and started messing with people?
Bury bury interesting...
This gives me a creepy sci-fi like view of the future for some reason.
what would be an example of a minor act of god? making it rain?
Diarrhea, for example, is a minor act.
Unless you just ate Taco Bell, in which case that "minor act" becomes something much more.
WoooOOOahhh! Did you see what GOD just did??!
Taco Bell Express?! How much faster can the process be? I can drive up, order a burrito, unwrap it, eat it and crap it back out in under 4 minutes.
You might as well just go home and toss the burrito in the toilet, and cut out the middle man.
They would be the last people I would want to do business with. I hear their business has been kind of dead lately.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Don't forget to watch out for the stiff competition.
While a good part of me thinks this is creepy, I then am struck by the fact that people do want to visit their loved ones and this isn't that crazy of an idea for giving them a feeling that they actually are visiting more than a blank wall with a name on it. Other than the price, I have to give them credit.
I think I want my ashes to be scattered in the fab that makes RFID's
I don't get the start of the video, what does SOL have to do with your dead relatives?
Because THEY sure are S.O.L!
Ha! Ha!