Video Tombstones 426
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."
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Fun to be had by all... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot's epitaph... (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if they'll upgrade (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fun to be had by all... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
hooray! (Score:2, Funny)
Walt Disney of the funeral business? (Score:3, Funny)
I have this image of a cemetery filled with Mickey Mouse ears on the tombstones, little Tinkerbell figurines sticking out of the ground on metal rods, and constant background music.
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
I thought it was running Linux? If you wanted to watch worms make sure they have the LCD running unpatched Windows
if it runs Windoze... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you...thank you...thank you very much...I'll be here all week!
OK, it has to be said.... (Score:2, Funny)
Top Tombstones (Score:5, Funny)
If I'm ever buried under one of these things... (Score:5, Funny)
What about ... (Score:4, 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.
Re:Free LCDs! (Score:5, Funny)
No Id Name
1 54550 Tackhead died in Graveyard. Killed by a Granite Block.
My vidstone will consist of a clip of Admiral Ackbar, with a voiceover saying "I told him it was a trap."
Well I know what *I* want on my tombstone (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fun to be had by all... (Score:2, Funny)
Clustering! (Score:3, Funny)
Just wait till these get hacked... (Score:3, Funny)
Son: OK Dad.
Video Screen: GOATSE.CX!!!!
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
embrace and extend (Score:2, Funny)
Pr0n (Score:2, Funny)
Can you imagine the massive pilgrimage... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Top Tombstones (Score:3, Funny)
All I can say... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fun to be had by all... (Score:3, Funny)
Blue screen of after death, perhaps?
Re:TombSTONEs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that right, Hecubus?
Yes, Master!
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
AFV Rejects (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Free LCDs! (Score:4, Funny)
So if you can renege and it's a bad thing, is it a good thing if you just nege?
Re:Fun to be had by all... (Score:3, Funny)
Especially if you get it with the wireless internet and cellphone option.
"How come you never visit your Mother?!"
Re:Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
No, I'm pretty sure it's dead.
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I want to be encased nude in a block of lucite. (Score:2, Funny)
"What does it do?"
"Boils. Lots of em. The size of baseballs."
Blue screen of death (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm... not the first (Score:3, Funny)
Is that a Cist & Deceased letter?
Goatse (Score:2, Funny)
Another Day at 1st Mortuary Tech Support (Score:3, Funny)
Hi, umm, my tombstone won't work.
What?
There's no display on it.
OK, Have you tried rebooting it?
How do you do that?
What model headstone do you have?
I don't know, it says.... 'engraved by...'
No, no, no. Thats just the plaque on the stone. We need the model of the actual headstone. There should be something chiseled into the back of it with a model and serial numbers?
OK, .... Model HS 4EVR Dragon Plus?
Yep, thats it, ok let me look that one up,... OK, there should be a reset button on the back? Just next to the usb jack?
Got it , they were covered in some mucky stuff, looks like bird...
Yep, we get a lot of that. OK hold down the reset button for 4 seconds and tell me what comes up on the headstone?
Ok..... it's booting! oh.. it its displaying an ad for VIAGRA! You know one of those short graphic video clips they're using now?
I'm sorry, it appears that your headstone has been hacked. Unfortunately you need to bring it back to the mortuary for service.
What?! Do you know how heavy this thing is?
Well, actually that's not the real headache - you're going to need a court order to be able to legally remove the headstone first. Now I can email you the forms or would you like to sign up with our service package that includes gravesite service?
Angband-style Tombstone (Score:2, Funny)
Billy Bob
Level: 25
Max Depth: 6 feet
Turns: 1002395872357
Exp: 2398579837
Killed by a fluffy cat in dark alleyway.