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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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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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