This URN Lets You Store Your Beloved's Ashes Inside A DILDO

'In a time where we are able to manipulate life, adjust the way that we look, where the possibilities are endless if it comes to body enhancements, there is one thing we still cannot answer, the unavoidable passing of life. Or can we? 21 Grams is a memory-box that allows a widow to go back to the intimate memories of a lost beloved one. After a passing, the missing of intimacy with that person is only one aspect of the pain and grieve. This forms the base for 21 Grams. The urn offers the possibility to conserve 21 grams of ashes of the diseased and displays an immortal desire. By bringing different nostalgic moments together like the scent of his perfume, ‘their’ music, reviving the moment he gave her her first ring opens a window to go back to moments of love and intimacy. She is able to have an intimate night with her sweetheart again. The cabinet functions also as an acoustic amplifier. In the back of the cabinet there is room for an iPhone, the music plays through the ‘forget me not’ flowers on the inside of the cabinet. The key to this cabinet is also a collier. So that she is the only one who can access the cabinet. 21 Grams is not only a way to tempt a person to revive an intimate night but displays an accusation against the unavoidable passing of life.'

Sex toys come in all shapes and sizes. But Netherlands-based designer Mark Sturkenboom is bringing his sex toy to a whole new level of weird. The device, called 21 Grams, is "a memory box that allows a widow to go back to the intimate memories of a lost beloved one," according to Sturkenboom's website. It's just that this "memory box" happens to be inside a dildo.

The glass urn allows you to place your loved one's ashes inside - 21 grams of ashes, to be precise.

Sturkenboom is serious about how this object should be used. He suggests bringing nostalgic moments into the act, like your lover's perfume, and their favorite music, which will open "a window to go back to moments of love and intimacy". The case has a scent diffuser and also functions as an amplifier. You can place your iPhone inside and let the music play through the 'forget me not' flowers on the sides of the box.

The box has a lock, so no one else can sleep with your dead lover's ashes. It just so happens that 21 grams is popularly thought of as the weight of the soul when it leaves the body on death, according to experiments performed by a doctor at the beginning of the 20th century. It was later the name of a 2003 movie starring Sean Penn. But Sturkenboom doesn't seem to be referencing either of these cultural touchstones.

Sturkenboom dreamed up the sex toy after noticing that an old woman that he assists with her groceries, kept an urn containing the remains of her late husband. He felt that did not reflect the way she spoke so lovingly about him. "In that same period I read an article about widows, taboos and sex and intimacy and then I thought to myself, 'can I combine these themes and make an object that is about love and missing and intimacy?'"