The Japanese Now Have Bar Codes on Tombstones


	The Japanese Now Have Bar Codes on Tombstones

constantskeptic

6-6-2008 6:13 PM

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I knew this was coming. This is one step away from virtual gravestones. Reserve your spot now!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/69c0f1d9-9911-4ed4-a54e-23d3d5705eb2/AB04F2A5-8964-4606-B3D8-88807E4DFE75/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html" href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mdn.mainichi.jp</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><H2 class="NewsTitle">Hi-tech tombstones in Japan let mourners link to images, videos of deceased</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P>The tombstones are being sold by stone processing company Ishinokoe. Behind doors on the tombstone that can be locked is a QR code -- a square code read by mobile phones that can link to Web addresses. Grave visitors can use the code to access images and photographs of the person while they were alive.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P>KOFU -- A gravestone manufacturer here is helping bereaved families remember their loved ones with a touch of technology -- mobile phone QR codes on tombstones that link to photographs and video clips of the deceased.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P>"Tombstones change with the ages," said Ishinokoe president Yoshitsugu Fukazawa. "If my grandfather who started the company could see this, he'd probably be really surprised."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P>The QR codes can also be added to existing graves, for a price of about 200,000 yen.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P class="EJLink"><A href="http://mainichi.jp/photo/archive/news/2008/05/07/20080508k0000m040043000c.html"><IMG width="17" height="13" alt="" src="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/image/icon_Japan.gif" />Click here for the original Japanese story</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><P>(Mainichi Japan) May 11, 2008</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080510p2a00m0na021000c.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mdn.mainichi.jp/img/562B0663-DDE4-402E-ADF5-E3D896BC68B0" alt="A cell phone is used to read a QR code inside a tombstone on April 30." /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AB04F2A5-8964-4606-B3D8-88807E4DFE75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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