With all of the QR codes in Japan it takes a good concept to really make us notice it these days.
Memorial stone maker Ishinokoe (Voice of the Stone) of Yamanashi Prefecture will soon begin producing grave stones with QR codes embedded in them. They are calling the concept Kuyou no Mado, roughly meaning “Memorial Service Window”, as visitors can scan the code with their mobiles and get information on the deceased.
Contents can include pictures, video, family information, and other items. While using a QR code for this may actually seem a bit outdated in a country of burgeoning RFID technology, they are simple and will likely be readable by generations of future devices. The sample QR code below is readable if you have a capable phone, but you can also check it out with this link.
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Not long before you get your QR baby tattoos. The rich will have the RFID tags as 3-D relief implants under their scalp, freaking out frenologiest the world over… Sign of the beast? I don’t thinks so… sign of the best!
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Interesting, and odd or even nonsensical, to combine something very permanent (an engraved stone marker) with something very transient (a telecommunications/data encoding protocol). I think my advice would be to stick with classic engraved text that doesn’t rely on infrastructure that will probably not exist more than a decade, let alone millenia.
I like the idea of loved ones having something to remind them of deceased relative or friend (with a video, website, picture, message, etc) when going to visit a grave site. I wish this already existed so I could get to know more about my relatives beyond the few pictures and stories I have now. It could link to genealogy websites. The idea of digital media is pretty new and will definitely keep evolving. Is likely that we won’t be using QR codes in a hundred years but this technology has been around for 17 years already. Why not another 20 years of use? And when they’re not longer scannable, you still have the slab of stone with language written on it.
Pre-pay for a “permanent” redirect and the code to pull up your Facebook page or Twitter feed, or perhaps some kind of catchall like an RSS feed. Because we’re all so important every bit of minutiae of our lives need to be memorialized forever.
To me it seems to take away from the memory. Maybe it is still new and I can’t get used to it yet, but I am not a fan.