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Personal Urn Offers You A Chance To Be Creepy After Death

Adam Frucci — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:40:00 +0000

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?

Personal Urns use “advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing” to create an urn in the shape of anyone’s head based on a photograph. And hey, if you’re not much to look at, they’re happy to make one based on any celebrity’s head as well. Me, I’m going to have my remains stored in the head of Natalie Portman.

I have my reasons. [Personal Urns via The Daily What]

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

Gizmodo US Edition — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0000

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.

Like any proud inventor, Baur requested that his ashes be buried with his 38-year-old creation when he died. Correction: He requested they be placed inside the invention. When Baur passed on May 4, his family obliged, putting some of the ashes in a Pringles can, and the rest in a traditional urn.

Looking back on the history of gadgetry, this is a sad passing for snack lovers and DIY geeks alike. From homemade cameras to custom antennas, the timless Pringles can did much more than satisfy cravings and expand waistlines, it gave us a signal—and hope—when a Cincinnati.com]

Digital Picture Frames Meet Pet Urns

Jason Chen — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:00:00 +0000

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.

The urn can handle up to 34 kilos of pet remains—if you have one giant dog or many smaller ones that you mix together—has a 7-inch screen and 256MB of storage for your photos and audio recordings. Yes, we said audio recordings, which can play back your pet’s various noises for you to enjoy from the comfort of your couch. Who can put a price on loving your pet after he/she’s gone? Pet Urns can, and it’s US$249. [Pet-Urns via Picture Snob]

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

Adam Frucci — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:31:02 +0000

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. Are you too cool for that? Does the idea of someone wanting to be placed inside something Star-Trek-themed for all of eternity give you a serious urge to give someone a wedgie? Well, Eternal Image, the company behind the Star Trek urn, has something for you too, my fratty friend: Major League Baseball urns and caskets. They also make a Cat Fanciers’ Association production urn, but I think that might go too far into the realm of the depressingly pathetic for me to investigate and make fun of with a clear conscience. [Product Page via BusinessWire]