Posts Tagged ‘Death’
Deadly Viper Killed by iRobot Roomba [Roomba]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 27th, 2009
There are worse things to worry about in the Middle East than a robotic vacuum cleaner, but to the viper who thought it’d be a cozy place to sleep, it proved to be the end of his violent, snakey existence.
The vipera palaestinae, as his parent snake gods christened him, had wound himself so tightly inside the iRobot Roomba that it died of head wounds. The Roomba? Well, it’s back to a life of giving kittens free rides and not cleaning corners correctly. [Facebook via BotJunkie]
Family awarded $16.5 million for wrongful death in ‘Hold Your Wee for a Wii’ contest
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 30th, 2009
Filed under: Gaming
Family awarded $16.5 million for wrongful death in 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' contest originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsFacebook Status: Resting In Peace [Web]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 26th, 2009
Facebook is now letting users memorialize pages of friends who have passed away.
The contact information of the person memorialized is privatized and the pages cannot be logged into anymore. You need to submit proof of death, but beyond that, I think this is going to make for some really tacky pranking. In the end, I find this to be a nice digital analogue to that which inevitably happens to all Facebook Users. [FB via BB]
Facebook Status: Resting In Peace [Web]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 26th, 2009
Facebook is now letting users memorialize pages of friends who have passed away.
The contact information of the person memorialized is privatized and the pages cannot be logged into anymore. You need to submit proof of death, but beyond that, I think this is going to make for some really tacky pranking. In the end, I find this to be a nice digital analogue to that which inevitably happens to all Facebook Users. [FB via BB]
Facebook Status: Resting In Peace [Web]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 26th, 2009
Facebook is now letting users memorialize pages of friends who have passed away.
The contact information of the person memorialized is privatized and the pages cannot be logged into anymore. You need to submit proof of death, but beyond that, I think this is going to make for some really tacky pranking. In the end, I find this to be a nice digital analogue to that which inevitably happens to all Facebook Users. [FB via BB]
Facebook Status: Resting In Peace [Web]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 26th, 2009
Facebook is now letting users memorialize pages of friends who have passed away.
The contact information of the person memorialized is privatized and the pages cannot be logged into anymore. You need to submit proof of death, but beyond that, I think this is going to make for some really tacky pranking. In the end, I find this to be a nice digital analogue to that which inevitably happens to all Facebook Users. [FB via BB]
Facebook Status: Resting In Peace [Web]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 26th, 2009
Facebook is now letting users memorialize pages of friends who have passed away.
The contact information of the person memorialized is privatized and the pages cannot be logged into anymore. You need to submit proof of death, but beyond that, I think this is going to make for some really tacky pranking. In the end, I find this to be a nice digital analogue to that which inevitably happens to all Facebook Users. [FB via BB]
i-mate Briefly Reappears On Everyone’s Radar, Just to Die [Cellphones]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 17th, 2009
Oct 23 2007: The last time we posted a story on i-mate, a once-hopeful early player in the Windows Mobile handset field. Since then, the company's story has been one of slow decline: restructuring, moving, layoffs, missed orders and debt. And now, at long last, death. [ITP]
Personal Urn Offers You a Chance to Be Supremely Creepy After Death [Bad Ideas]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 29th, 2009
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]
Foxconn Increases Compensation For iPhone Suicide Employee’s Family [Iphone Leak Suicide]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 28th, 2009
Foxconn just increased the compensation for their worker that killed himself as a result of possible beatings and interrogations over a lost iPhone.
The family now gets $52,600 (up from $44,000) as well as $4,385 every year as long as one of the parents are alive. The Foxconn official that leaked this information to the press spoke anonymously since he wasn't a qualified press-relations employee. [Yahoo]
