QR Code on a Tombstone

Yoav Medan didn't know what to say when his mother died -- seemed that there just wasn't enough room on the tombstone to write what the family felt best suited her. So the medical technology executive thought outside of the box (or rectangle, as it were) and after talking it over with relatives, decided to put a QR code on her grave. It links to an ever-changing web page about his mother and features pictures from her life and reminiscences from family and friends.

Over time, Medan hopes the QR code and memorial site will help create a lasting history of his mother that will live on for generations. “I was most concerned about 20 or 40 years from now, how will she be remembered. … [I wanted to put] what’s in our memory into a place that doesn’t forget,” he said.

The QR code itself is a laser engraving, filled with a black paste, and sits behind a piece of glass on the tombstone. “The guy who built the tombstone, he wants to make a business out of it,” Medan said.

He thinks the idea could catch on based on the feedback he’s been hearing. “People identify with this way of keeping the memory of someone and actually making it dynamic and evolving with time as you remember more,” he said. The QR code-enabled tombstone adds a new twist to the growing number of services we’ve seen emerge that are designed to help us decide what happens to our online identity after we die and create digital tributes to our lost loved ones.

Link -- via Mashable


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It's a food trough for goats that are on a diet. When they get too fat, their stomachs get poked by the sharp spikes and discourage over-eating.
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It's an ancient scoop designed to pick up lost buttons in the woods.
Bad design anyway, it often picks up lots of berries and no button at all.
So, you need to throw the berries away every minute, but still no button !

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It's a shovel for encouraging five-year-olds to help with gardening. "Ye're an excavator, Harry. Now dig me a hole."

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Actual Use Guess: Might be for harvesting huckleberries, or some such.

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This is a scale model of the non-mechanized backhoe model of the 1930s, designed to give more people jobs as they did manual labor during the Great Depression.
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This is the manual roto-tiller for hipsters who think using a gas-guzzling machine to make their organic gardens is too mainstream.
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This is a pooper-scooper designed to spear & scoop up the turds, but let more sand & earth fall back to the ground.
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It is the "Wilson Scoot Around": the deceptively simple portable rig they used to bring the animatronic head of the next door "neighbor" from the classic ABC sitcom "Home Improvement" around to boat shows and monster truck rallies for promotional purposes.
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It's a grooming tool for your pet Rancor!! It helps scrape off dead skin and dirt and leaves them with the healthiest of skin!

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Ostrich neck basket! Their head fits through the slot on the top and it slides down their neck and rests on their chest. They can guard your valuables and no one goes near it because of the spikes, and o yea it's hanging from the neck of a big angry bird.

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A fine folk art example of an Italian spaghetti harvester. Just run the serrated scoop through the spaghetti trees to remove the ripe pasta.

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