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Company Plans Video-Playing Tombstones
Local 6 ^
| 08/17/05
| unk
Posted on 08/17/2005 4:08:15 PM PDT by rocksblues
The solar-powered Vidstone will play a video of the person's life at the touch of a button.
It will not have speakers but a jack to plug in headphones at cemeteries.
(Excerpt) Read more at local6.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: cemeteries; tombstones
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Any info on where to purchase stock in this company would be greatly appreciated!
To: rocksblues
What happened to those who have done this previously??
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:10:03 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring
First time I heard of this!
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:11:26 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(I support the war on terror)
To: rocksblues
Next, tombstones with video games.
4
posted on
08/17/2005 4:11:55 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Just call me Mr. Zero Diversity Points!)
To: rocksblues
5
posted on
08/17/2005 4:12:02 PM PDT
by
decal
("The Republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it")
To: rocksblues
I want mine to be something ridiculous like Ren & Stimpy's "Happy happy Joy joy song"
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:12:14 PM PDT
by
badpacifist
(Question Authority of public schools. Which thought police have your kids?)
To: rocksblues
Disgustin concept, IMOHO.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:12:59 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: rocksblues
I think that's very cool.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:13:06 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: DoughtyOne; thoughtomator
I want mine to play Abbott and Costello's, Who's on First!
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:15:27 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(I support the war on terror)
To: rocksblues
As much as drunk teens like to vandalize tombstones, they had better make those screens to withstand a few good whacks from a baseball bat.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:17:40 PM PDT
by
msnimje
To: rocksblues
Cemetaries in other countries sometimes have a photo affixed or etched into the tombstone.
Video cemetaries might replace the burger joint or movie theater for teens to hang out.
I would think this idea is more for the upscale mausoleum crowd.
To: rocksblues
"First of its kind" on the website, but I have seen this on the news years ago, and I saw one in a cemetery but it wasn't "on"...though I was certain that one was also solar-powered and it was a sunny day, so maybe it was broken.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:19:50 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: DoughtyOne
I think its cool also . When I visit my parent's gravesite I always wonder what kind of lives the other people buried there led .I thought of the video idea about 20 years ago. I would have placed the data in a central building where you could access by names or a number on the tombstone . Seems such a waste to see a headstone with just a name . Give the deceased some recognition for what they did while walking the Earth
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:20:34 PM PDT
by
Renegade
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Cemetaries in other countries sometimes have a photo affixed or etched into the tombstone. Just saw one in Parlin, New Jersey, a couple of weeks ago.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:20:56 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: msnimje
24 hour armed guards will be included in the purchase price!
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:21:05 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(I support the war on terror)
To: rocksblues
Selections of Beetlejuice on mine.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:23:18 PM PDT
by
clyde asbury
(I-I-I-I'm Stayin' the Night, Stayin' the Night)
To: thoughtomator
You can tell the deceased who were not technically savvy...their birth and death dates will be flashing "1200"
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:24:34 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Renegade
You can not only give them a face and a life, you can give them the opportunity to explain some pretty important facts of life. If a person was rather creative, they could develop a four hour dvd with an amazing amount of information, supportive of sound local and national policy. The possibilities are wide open.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:24:44 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: Gondring
Seems like a nice idea but with the lack of respect that people have for each other who would pay for the replacement flat screen?
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:25:11 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(I support the war on terror)
To: rocksblues
24 hour armed guards will be included in the purchase price!Pirated copies of the videos might become a fad like baseball cards.
How many video lives do you have in your collection?
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