coffins

The Many Advantages Of A $US400k Phone-Equipped Gold Coffin

10:20AM Brian Barrett | At first blush, you might look at this $US381,000 gold coffin that comes with a mobile phone and think: what a hopelessly tacky waste of money. You’d be so wrong. Here’s just a few benefits: More »

A Screw-In Coffin Is Clever And Economical

1:20PM Jason Chen | This screw-in coffin seems very economical, both in saving ground space and not having to have heavy equipment to lower your family members into the ground. Cemeteries have limited ground in meatspace, so putting people in edgewise just makes sense. More »

What’re You Up to in That Coffin? Oh, Just Chillin’

9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Air-conditioned coffins are all the rage now in Serbia, where they keep bodies looking extra fresh. I can understand how people can’t live without their A/C, but really, they need it when they’re dead too? More »

Shelves for Life: Even Death Won’t Do You Part

1:20PM Andi Wang | Designed to make “stronger emotional relationships with our belongings,” Shelves for Life is a bookcase-slash-coffin that holds your personal possessions in life and your person—corpse—in death. More »

Be Buried In an iPhone, Vista or Boobies-Inspired Coffin

2:15AM Jason Chen | A company called Creative Coffins offers a service where you can choose themed caskets designed however you like, leading the nerds at T3 to mock up some interesting ones with the concept. Would you want to be buried in an iPhone casket? A Vista casket? How about GTA4, Halo, or an SNES one with an eject button on the side? If these are too tasteless for you, you could easily design your own and have the company plaster it along the exterior. We’d probably choose the Goatse design as a metaphor for the gaping maw of hell we’re undoubtedly headed for after making poop jokes on Giz for more than two years. [T3] More »

Guy’s Beer Can Coffin: Travel to The Afterlife in Drunken Stlye

9:39PM Gizmodo US Edition | “The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin,” said Bette Davis. Perhaps Bill Bramanti has heard this, perhaps not— one thing’s for sure, his coffin may be his mark on history. He loves Pabst Blue Ribbon beer so much that he’s going to be buried in a coffin labelled just like a can of it. In fact, Bill’s already had the casket made and has even tried it out for size. Until he’s permanently resident though, it’s serving as a beer cooler for… Pabst Blue Ribbon beer of course. A coffin shaped like your favourite beverage? That’s consumer-brand dedication, right there folks. So, tell us in the comments: what novelty coffin would you choose? [USA Today] More »

Mourn Your Wedding Ring Properly When Divorce Takes It’s Hold

1:13PM Nick Broughall | I have no idea why I’d be posting this, considering I am currently two weeks out from my own marriage. It kind of seems a bit, well, negative. Still, it’s funny in a morbid, cynical way. It’s fairly self-explanatory – it’s a coffin for your wedding ring after you decide to get divorced. Each coffin comes with an engraved message of bitterness and hatred mourning, which you can select from a number of pre-written alternatives or write your own. At US$30, it’s a pretty cheap way of saying goodbye to your marriage. If you need to do that kind of thing, or can’t fathom the idea of pawning your ring off on ebay. [Wedding Ring Coffin via Styledash] More »

Star Trek Coffin Warps Your Corpse To the Final Nerd Frontier

4:33AM Brian Lam | Eternal Image, makers of afterlife geek vessels, released a near final design of their Star Trek casket based on the “Photon Torpedo” design from STII: Wrath of Khan. The piano black coffin is complete with Federation insignia on the inside, and handles for when the ensigns load your geek corpse into the airlock. [Eternal Image via Geekologie, Star Trek Urn] More »