Memorialise your death with an E-Tomb! Social Networking beyond the grave

Previously, I wrote an article about "what happens to your social networks when you die" and how your family can go about closing your accounts (or keeping them open).Facebook has allowed for the recently deceased person's profile page to become like a tribute page, which allows family and friends to share stories and pay homage. However, a new recent addition to the memorialisation of the dead takes it to a whole new level of weird (or creepy or cool to some).Introducing the E-Tomb or electronic tombstone - not an electronic tomb which hold the body, that's a bit gross. Created by Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei and Mo Ran, the E-tomb is in the simplest form an external hard drive. It stores all the information which the deceased ever put online - from various social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Blogs.How does it differ from regular hard drives? Well, for one its self powered by solar panels which are mounted on the outside - if it is placed outside hopefully that means it is also waterproof. It also has Bluetooth, which means that friends and family can send information from their devices to the tombstone about the person.For the online addicts out there including myself, it sounds like a very smart idea - what a better way to memorialise or digitalise yourself when you die. Though it also gives me the idea that maybe I should start having an external drive now, so that I will have a massive collection by the time I pass away.How they retrieve the information from the various locations would be an interesting to see. The old debate of 'who' owns the information once it is posted online. Does it belong to the deceased, the family or the people who own the site which it is posted on?Either way, its a pretty interesting concept - original for sure. But would I choose to have one? Despite spending almost every hour online when I am awake?  Probably not.What about you?[Image Credit: Yanko Design]