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The Value-added Tombstone

Death Reference Desk
22 May 2011

What’s the next best thing to placing flowers on your loved one’s grave marker? Teddy bears? Mylar balloons? Thanks to technology, those items are now passe. The latest way for you to pay your respects is via the QR code. The what??

For the uninitiated (or perhaps those without a smartphone) a QR code is a two-dimensional code readable by dedicated QR code readers and camera phones. In use in Japan since 1994, QR (or quick response) codes are now being used by various individuals, groups and businesses to promote all sorts of things. Advertising, music and business execs are using the codes to give people a value-added experience; scan the QR code and you are transported to a new layer of information about the product, artist or in the case of the funeral industry – the dearly departed.

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RELATED LINKS

St. Paul Pioneer Press (May 2011)

QR Code (Wikipedia)

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