iCandy: As Seen in the Movies

A bendable display, a rocket-powered bicycle, and a gun that fires only for its owner

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iCandy: As Seen in the Movies
Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Photo: Ints Kalnins/Reuters
Is death a good reason not to keep up with today’s hottest music? For Fredrik Hjelmquist, designer of the CataCoffin, a coffin outfitted with a sound system, the answer is a rhythmic, pulsating, polyphonic no. Hjelmquist, who makes his living selling music and video equipment, hopes to convince grieving relatives that having the ability to deejay the deceased’s afterlife via an Internet connection would be comforting.

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