Gizmodo: coffins

What're You Up to in That Coffin? Oh, Just Chillin'

Odelia Lee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Air-conditioned coffins are all the rage now in Serbia, where they keep bodies looking extra fresh. I can understand how people can't live without their A/C, but really, they need it when they're dead too?

I guess if you want to be buried in style and comfort, you'll need one of these suckers. Sign me up, because I sure don't want to be sweating bullets in my coffin. You know what, might as well throw in some Doritos and an Xbox in there while you're at it. [Daily Star via Crave]

Shelves for Life: Even Death Won't Do You Part

Andi Wang — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:20:13 EDT

Designed to make "stronger emotional relationships with our belongings," Shelves for Life is a bookcase-slash-coffin that holds your personal possessions in life and your person—corpse—in death.

These plywood, floor-standing shelves are meant to be self-assembled, which makes us wonder: How can you reassemble your shelf to resemble your coffin if you're already dead? Ideal for psychics and vampires only, if you're mortal and boring, make sure your will specifically states that the shelf is to go with you—not for $5 at a garage sale. [Shelves for Life via Like Cool]

Be Buried In an iPhone, Vista or Boobies-Inspired Coffin

Jason Chen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EDT

A company called Creative Coffins offers a service where you can choose themed caskets designed however you like, leading the nerds at T3 to mock up some interesting ones with the concept. Would you want to be buried in an iPhone casket? A Vista casket? How about GTA4, Halo, or an SNES one with an eject button on the side? If these are too tasteless for you, you could easily design your own and have the company plaster it along the exterior. We'd probably choose the Goatse design as a metaphor for the gaping maw of hell we're undoubtedly headed for after making poop jokes on Giz for more than two years. [T3]

Star Trek Coffin Warps Your Corpse To the Final Nerd Frontier

Brian Lam — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:33:43 EDT

Eternal Image, makers of afterlife geek vessels, released a near final design of their Star Trek casket based on the "Photon Torpedo" design from STII: Wrath of Khan. The piano black coffin is complete with Federation insignia on the inside, and handles for when the ensigns load your geek corpse into the airlock. [Eternal Image via Geekologie, Star Trek Urn]

Uono Cocoon Coffin

gizmodo.com — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:17:31 EDT

If everything you've done in life, you've done in style, why go to your grave in an unattractive box? For $3,500 you can get yourself the high gloss Uono Cocoon Coffin, in your choice of fourteen standard colors (or you can use their Haute Couture service if you'd like to pick another) . Even crunchy granola types can love this thing without guilt—it's biodegradable, made from jute and coated with a water-based varnish.

Uono Coffins
Uono Cocoon Coffin [2006 Bottom Line Design Awards]

Soul Ash Solace: Go Out In Style

Charlie White — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:45 EST

Here's a great way to go out in style, with Soul Ash Solace by Maximal Design, a combination cremation coffin and urn that will make you the envy of all of your morgue mates. The body is placed in this coffin made of eco-friendly corrugated board, papier-m ch and wood, and on top of the coffin is a stainless steel memory capsule which the product designers call an urn. (By the way, the picture above is slightly confusing—the top of the coffin looks like ashes, but it's not.)

Coffin and urn are placed in the crematorium, and after it's reduced to ashes, all that's left is this hourglass-shaped capsule that can be kept as a souvenir. It's shaped like an hourglass because time does heal all non-fatal wounds.

Soul Ash Solace (Belgium) [Maximal Design]