Tag: GRAVE

Memorializing the deceased with Facebook mausoleums may offer some digital consolation to bereaved friends and family, but a new product concept called the 'E-Tomb' has taken the idea of post-mortem social networking to an entirely new (and creepily literal) level. Designed by Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei and Mo Ran, the E-Tomb sort of looks like a cross between a ...

It's quite common for someone's family to include a treasured memento with a loved one when they're buried, whether it be a piece of jewelry, a note, or some other trinket that was important to them. So, it should probably come as no surprise that this day and age, when everyone seems to spend all day either talking or texting, that trinket is increasingly some sort of cell phone. Yes, we love ...

This one's a bit morbid, but the technology behind it all is actually quite interesting. Japan's own Nichiryoku has evidently created a unique urn retrieval system that enables family members with deceased loved ones to return to a reverent storage facility, swipe an RFID card, and watch their late mother / father / etc. emerge from the underground for viewing. Aside from saving space and money, ...