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Digital Tombstone

By Vince Smith / 26 comments

The providers for digital tombstones just doubled. First came the Vidstone and now from Dutch inventor, Henk Rozema, comes a new digital gravestone. Unlike the vidstone which you have to press the play button to listen to the message, this tombstone has an infrared sensor which activates the display when anybody stands in front of the grave. The LCD display plays messages, pictures and videos from the deceased.

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looseskr3wz

This idea totally sucks. It is just a way to make money. A grave stone is supposed to be for a long time, and I can’t imagine a computer lasting too long out in the elements. Not to mention what happens when hackers get into them. Come on man….give it a rest.

Sucky Idea
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I’d laugh if someone found a sploit for these tombs; would be hilarious to see a screenshot of goatse.cx on someones grave…
Dmack

…leaning a wife and 3 kids…. and now a message from acme tombstones
Rawt

Dead Grandma / Mother-in-law: “Hello kids, as you may already tell… im dead. I was going to give you all my inheritance money, but i decided to spend it on this kick-ass tombstone.”

Dead Grandma / Mother-in-law: “The following message was recorded for my little billy… if you’r not Billy, well sit around and hear the story of when he peed all over his birthday presents when a clown poped out of one…”
Rico G

To be perfectly honest the idea is rather moving. 100 years after your death (assuming it’ll last that long) Who will still remember you? Who will even care that you even exsisted. We live we die but only a lucky few will ever leave a truely memorable impact on the world. This… invention keeps the memory of our lives… “alive”. I have a great sense of humor… so to still be able to put a smile on a complete stranger’s face… seems eternally satisfying. It lets the veiwer know that everyone is unique… even in death.
Jerrod

Putting your life’s memories on a DVD would have the same effect, plus cost a helluva lot less. If this Vidstone is such a great idea, try this. Put Grandma’s life events on a DVD and try to peddle the thing to the general public. Unless it had scenes of her making a total jackass of herself (and I’ve seen clips of the old folks on the Net), the sales alone will tell you how well this is marketable. It’s not. It’s another ploy, just like the custom caskets that look like cars and such. You put the thing in the ground and instead of mourning for the deceased when you visit the gravesite, you bawl because you put Junior’s college tuition six feet under with a corpse in it. Way to exploit the deceased! Bravo!
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i would say why advertise my death when u could use the money to prevent death.?!?!?!?
David

they had that shit on that movie final cut with robin williams
yourmom

i agree with jerrod, just put it on a dvd, and if some hacker did umm hack it, some people could do some pretty nast things i.e. porn, pictures of dead ppl from movies ect. so yeah, go with the dvd
Kyuzo

heh… thought it was like attached to the dead person;s head and the last images played… that’ll be creepy…
Kelli

dis shit is jus too much…what was wrong wit da old tombstones?…
http://yahoo.com baa

Once you’re dead, how are you going to even give a shyte about people getting your “messages”. It’s not as if you’re going to be like “oh darn, i wish i’d left a message to so and so…”. How the hell can you care when you’re DEAD!???? Ok, maybe it’s for the people that miss you a whole bunch — is that it? Well then they should just keep home videos, it’s easier than driving to the F-in cemetary! On a final note – if the inventors make a killing with this then it will tempt them to actually start killing…That’s so dumb but its the only bad joke I could come up with!
Brian

Um, it seemed cool until I watched the cinematic display of crap vidstone does. Maybe if you just had no music, just images of them, no stupid cut scenes of creeks, it’d be ok, but that shit sucks. Plus it’s not exactly discreet the way they do it, this is where that wood LED clock technology comes into play. If you could have a tombstone with stone writing, and when you visted it it showed images below the writing (without having a computer monitor jutting out of the stone) of your loved one at their life’s happiest moments, I think that would be good, this shit is just plain creepy.
Jimmy Wichard

lol. I am so getting this when I die. I’m going to make a video of myself and say, “Whoever is watching this is going to die in one week unless you make a copy and stuff.”

It’s going to be great!
Annick

Great…now my grandparents can tell strangers from beyond the grave that it was that their granddaughter marrying a girl that killed them. And what about all those people who think their funny and decide to moon the camera? That’s just what cemetaries need. Homophobia and old men’s asses.
bob

This is totally AWSOME!!!!!!!!

What you do is this…
make it look like its a webcam type thing, just showing your body in the casket. So on the screen it shows you your face, and maybe you holding soome flowers. Then in the video, you open your eyes. Make sure you get sweet contact lensees that make your eyes all red or something. Then start screaming and cursing and say “How dare you wake the dead!?!?!” in a demonic voice. You make sure the speakers are planted underground.
Enjoy!
amy

I think that pple would have been much smarter to have loved themselves best and looked after themselves. No one gives a hoot after a while all forget the dead. Live the best u know how until u r alife. Make sure u r comfortable with your decisions.
bob

psh.
Some person

Wow… I could never have that on one of my relatives graves. That would probably make me cry, and i bet theres another couple people here that would 2. But, that would be cool to have 100 of those censors on a line of graves, then, when an unexpected visitor comes and runs past them, each sound combined plays a song or sometin.
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Cassieopia

I just lost my 31 year old brother a little more than a year ago. He left behind 5 small kids that may or may not remember him and-or his voice… we barely could afford the regular tombstone. His children and children like his who can’t remember would appreciate something like this. You never know do you?
Moundyfish McHaddock

EHHH THIS IS WEIRD EHHHH
IM SCARED EHHH RUNAWAY
david

good they should prbably make it a lot better stronger more vioce audible and interactive
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