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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. Re:QR codes != information by Sarten-X · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. QR codes can store over 2KB of arbitrary binary data.

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    You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
  2. Re:Companies don't live forever. by pnot · · Score: 3, Informative

    QR codes can store more data than just a website address. In addition to a URL, name, dates, and a brief biography are reasonable things to include in a large QR code.

    But at that point you may as well write the brief biography in English, and save your descendants from having to figure out how to read a QR code.

    If our forebears had done this a hundred years ago, great-great-grandad's brief biography would be encoded on a bronze punch-card in an encoding nobody can find the documentation for. Text, on the other hand, has been working just fine for millenia.