The weirdest use of QR codes yet?
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QR codes are everywhere right now. Recently, we looked at many ways in which QR codes can be used for business and personal reasons. But I think we’ve found the weirdest one yet: adding a QR code to your tombstone.
That’s right, your memory can live on through a webpage, image or, worst of all, video created and set before you pass on.
This service, provided by a company in Seattle, means people can find out more about a deceased person simply by scanning their head stone.
Creepy, no?
Of course, this could be a huge time-saver for historians. After all, why would you spend hours researching a person’s past, when all you have to do is click a button on your phone? It’s like a time capsule for the twenty-first century.
What do you think? Creepy or clever?
Source: The Next Web
September 10th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
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