Bizarre product alert: Solar-powered video headstone?
Now I’ve heard it all. A company called Vidstone LLC is making headstones powered by solar energy that play videos of loved ones that have passed away. I’m all for solar PV applications, but this one is plain strange. So much for rest in peace.

Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.