Posted on 05/11/2008 6:16:13 AM PDT by Tolkien
KOFU -- A gravestone manufacturer here is helping bereaved families remember their loved ones with a touch of technology -- mobile phone QR codes on tombstones that link to photographs and video clips of the deceased.
The tombstones are being sold by stone processing company Ishinokoe. Behind doors on the tombstone that can be locked is a QR code -- a square code read by mobile phones that can link to Web addresses. Grave visitors can use the code to access images and photographs of the person while they were alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...
You’ve gotta love the innovative Japanese! They never cease to amaze me with the interesting stuff they come up with.
I’ll start to worry when they invent a way to connect with the deceased in the afterlife.
Although the use is innovative, it isn’t much of a big deal, really, unless they’ve managed to integrate a self-contained power unit that should be expected to last for centuries.
What’s been done here is the equivalent of embedding a digital photo frame (can be had for less than a hundred dollars) into a tombstone.
Anyway, nice!
good grief would ya stay DEAD already? ; ) modifying what i used to tell xskids when they were little... pick a state [living or dead] and STAY THERE!
That might be a way to make some money. Have a dead person web site!! ;^)
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