21 Grams Lets Lovers Connect From Beyond the Grave

UTRECHT, Netherlands—Inventor Mark Sturkenboom created 21 Grams as a “memory box” that allows people to “go back to the intimate memories of a lost beloved one.” But it’s not just a simple keepsake box that holds photographs or other traditional mementos. In addition to functioning as an acoustic amplifier (the back of the cabinet holds an iPhone and plays the music through speakers designed to look like Forget-Me-Not flowers) and containing a scent diffuser that can emit a lover’s perfume or cologne, there is also a dildo that has an urn to hold up to 21 grams of the deceased’s ashes. Let’s say that again, shall we? There is a dildo that can hold inside of it 21 grams of the dead person’s ashes. While you let that sink in (read: crawl under your skin and give you a bad case of the ewws), know that the 21 Gram reference comes from the experiments conducted in the early 1900s by Dr. Duncan “Om” MacDougal in an attempt to determine the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body at death. AVN realizes that knowing that tidbit of info doesn’t really take away the ick factor of getting it on with a dildo containing the cremains of a lover while “Let’s Get It On” blasts through some flowery speakers. But it might make you feel a wee bit smarter. Plus, the dildo is gold-plated. So there’s that. For more information, visit MarkSturkenboom.com.