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QR Codes For Memorials

Posted by samzenpus on from the last-message dept.

mikejuk writes "Companies in America, Denmark and the UK are adding QR codes to gravestones that can be used to view online memorials via smartphones. The idea is that these living headstones can include photographs, videos and memories of the dead person from family and friends. Genealogists and historians have always found graveyards a useful resource. If the QR idea takes hold memorials will be able to tell much more to future generations."

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  1. R.I.P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thus, behold, all that will be on my tombstone
    8=======D ~~~~ ( . )( . )

  2. What will future generations really see? by ljhiller · · Score: 4, Funny
    Get the best deals on:
    Cars
    Mortgages
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    This website www . eternalmemories . com is available. (C) 2015 Godaddy.com

    Nothing is so impermanent as an online web service.

  3. Re:QR code ubiquity by h4rr4r · · Score: 2, Funny

    RUINED?

    A poster with a QR code ruins the look?

    White people problems.

  4. Re:Future generations? by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    QR codes may not be popular for long, but they are easy enough to build a program to read. Do you really think future humans will be carrying around weaker computers than we are now?

    The company being around is not that important considering you can store ~2KB in a QR code.

    Wonderful. Future humans with their amazingly powerful computers will be able to decipher such amazing messages as "http://www.qr-memories.co.uk/memorials4less/115223/b11235/4.gif".

    Through sufficiently advanced technology, future generations may eventually use that message to discover that their great uncle Leon's favourite number was 404.