I was just thinking that Arlington would benefit from such a technology...that's a pretty daunting place to navigate; although I hate to see any such codes defacing the markers. I see they are devloping an app for that
Posted on 10/01/2012 5:14:48 AM PDT by Daffynition
Lorie Miller bends over her grandparents' grave in north Philadelphia. She holds a two-inch brass square she's going to attach next to the headstone's names and dates.
Printed onto that square is a QR code — that square digital bar code you can scan with a smartphone. Miller peels off the back of her square to expose the adhesive and pushes it into place. The headstone, which otherwise looks the same as many others around it, has just jumped into the modern age.
Miller hopes other grieving families will do the same. She and her husband, Rick, are launching a new business called Digital Legacys to sell the tags. Visitors to a tagged grave can pull out their smartphones, scan the QR symbol, and be sent to a personalized Web page for the deceased.
"They can just upload the photos to the website and we can build their website for them," Lori Miller says. "They give us a biography of their loved ones, and they can upload videos and backgrounds and music."
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I think it’s a great idea. I could have used QR codes at Pere LeChaise.
I was just thinking that Arlington would benefit from such a technology...that's a pretty daunting place to navigate; although I hate to see any such codes defacing the markers. I see they are devloping an app for that
I don’t think I’m the guy with the answer to your question.
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