death
Random Stuff
Warning: Don’t Die Around Geeks Or This Might Happen
1:20AM Mark Wilson | We’re sure it was meant as a loving gesture, but when a man puts his brother’s cremated remains into a SPARCstation case, even we begin to question our geek sensibilities. More »
Gadgets
Personal Urn Offers You A Chance To Be Creepy After Death
12:40AM Adam Frucci | When you leave this Earth, how will you be remembered? As a kind soul, or as that jackass who insisted his ashes be placed in a bust of his own head on the mantle? More »
Business
Foxconn Increases Compensation For Suicide Employee’s Family
8:22AM Jason Chen | Foxconn just increased the compensation for their worker that killed himself as a result of possible beatings and interrogations over a lost iPhone. More »
QOTD
QOTD: How Did You Learn About Michael Jackson’s Death?
3:00AM Dan Nosowitz | It’s the sad news that nearly killed the Internet. Google News, Yahoo!, MSNBC, CNET, Twitter, LA Times, and more all went down from the insane amounts of MJ-related traffic. So we ask: How did you learn of Michael Jackson’s death? More »
Science
Giz Explains: How Electrocution Really Kills You
4:40AM Matt Buchanan | Humans are fragile. Our bodies are easily mutilated by our own creations: Crushed, mulched, zipped. But physical force is weak and inefficient compared to good old electrocution, which, according to MythBusters’ Adam Savage, doesn’t kill you the way you think it does. More »
Design
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 »
Gadgets
My Final Gadget Will and Testament
3:20AM Mark Wilson | I, Mark Wilson, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do declare this to be my last gadget Will. More »
QOTD
Would You Want to Be Buried With a Gadget?
8:00AM Sean Fallon | It’s seems morbid and weird, but burying loved ones with gadgets is becoming more commonplace these days. Assuming you we to be buried, would you bring along a favourite gadget? More »
Science
Weather Rocket Causes a Wang to Explode During Cremation
1:40PM Andi Wang | A Chinese man, killed by a weather rocket, was thought to have died from getting struck by lightning until his body exploded at his own funeral. More »
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