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Roy Rivenburg

Roy Rivenburg

Posted: January 27, 2010 06:13 PM

Apple ditches iPad, unveils iCasket

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Steve Jobs shocked the world today by abandoning Apple's long-awaited iPad tablet in favor of the iCasket, a high-tech coffin that allows the dead to send text messages, download books and install apps. "This is a game-changer for the funeral industry and the afterlife," said one analyst. "Well, unless cemeteries refuse to add WiFi."

Apple's first advertisement for the new "smart coffin" can be found at NotTheLATimes.com

Copyright 2008, 2010 by Roy Rivenburg

 
 
 
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06:05 PM on 01/28/2010
And the great thing is, the batteries never need replacing...