Urns

Ghost Urns Bring Your Sense Of Humour Into The Afterlife

12:40AM December 17, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Why should cremation be so sombre? And why should your eternal resting place be a giant flower pot? Anna Marinenko’s ghost urns are perhaps the only way to make sure you become a ghost after you pass away. More »


Trekkie Ashes Can Only Be Stored In A Star Trek Urn

6:00AM September 19, 2010 | Casey Chan

It’s not as gaudy as the Star Trek coffin or even the first Star Trek urn, but this latest urn from Eternal Image still captures the hearts (and the rest of the body’s ashes) of Trekkies everywhere. More »


Gadgets

Personal Urn Offers You A Chance To Be Creepy After Death

12:40AM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Geek Out

Pringles Can Inventor Buried in a—wait for it—Pringles Can

6:00AM June 2, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

The inventor of the Pringles can, Dr. Fredric J. Baur, had an odd request regarding the treatment of his final remains. Well, odd for anyone but the inventor of the Pringles can, that is.

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Gadgets

Digital Picture Frames Meet Pet Urns

5:00AM May 20, 2008 | Jason Chen

Digital Picture frames have been gaining in popularity lately, marrying convenience of having multiple pictures in one frame with the inconvenience of teaching old people how to use them. What’s even better about this version is that it’s for your pets. Your dead pets.

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Star Trek and MLB Urns Will Make You a Superfan in this Life and the Next

6:31AM October 9, 2007 | Adam Frucci

Would you like to be remembered as a pathetic geek who based his entire life around a piece of pop-culture sci-fi entertainment that you didn’t even have a hand in creating, filling a unique role of someone who’s completely passive yet also obsessive compulsive? Great! This Star Trek urn is for you. It’s shiny, futuristic-looking (for now), and just so above-and-beyond dorky that you’ll probably get into a special section of Nerd Heaven where they have 1,000,000-sided die and piles of mint-condition magic cards as high as the eye can see. More »