A funeral director has launched a way of letting people find out
about who is buried at a grave by scanning a special code on the
headstone with a mobile phone.
The undertaker can etch QR codes - a
barcode-type square - on to a piece or metal or granite then glue it on
to graves, memorials and tribute plaques on benches.
All grave
visitors have to do is scan the stone with their mobile to see a
biography, pictures, tributes and videos of the dead person.
"like"&"share" buttons on the headstones!!!!
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DeleteI saw this in the paper today. I like reading inscriptions, imagining the lives of those whose memorials I stop to peruse.
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Good luck with that in five or ten years time.
Carved stone lasts centuries. These codes will be gone in a few years. And the webpages they link to? Who will host them, maintain them.
Your epitaph might rapidly become "404, Page not found"
"oops, the page you are looking for..." or this http://www.oddee.com/contrib_10667.aspx
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