Apple Ditches iPad, Unveils iCasket?

Uncategorized January 29, 2010
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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

Source: HuffingtonPost VIa NotTheLATimes.com

Ryan’s Thoughts:

Could you imagine if this was real? I really think there could be a market for this. Have a casket company build a casket panel that could snap a iPad into and show tribute videos, photo slide shows, memorial pages, ect. The options are endless. This maybe a joke, but they could be on to something here!!

What do you think?