This is an unmistakable symptom that humanity, as a whole, has condescended to a festering mass of triviality.
I wonder who does tech support for this thing.
When I die, please bury my gigapet with me.
The tombstone is located in southern Israel and was erected August 13, 1998 for 17 year old Guy Akrish who died in a car accident.
Call it a monument to Israelis’ love affair with cellular telephones. Gleaming in the sunlight, a larger-than-life black marble model of the mobile phone Guy Akrish loved to cradle now marks his grave in a cemetery in the southern town of Ashkelon. “Hello, this is Guy, how are you doing?” reads the epitaph on the “digital display” of the phone-headstone of the 17-year-old killed in a road accident a month ago. Guy’s sister Diana told reporters the family decided on the unique memorial “because Guy so much enjoyed talking on the phone.
Article at Unwired.com