In an effort to better relate to a younger generation, a U.S.-based headstone manufacturer has created new burial markers so visitors can learn more about the deceased and leave messages for them. All it takes is a smartphone or mobile device and a free app.
Seattle-based Quiring Monuments lasers QR — or “quick read” — codes on black plastic and copper stickers. The code looks like a square barcode. They are then stuck on the monument. After scanning the code on a smartphone or an app on a mobile device, like an iPad, visitors are redirected to a website built by the person’s family.
Each site can be personalized with memories, comments from friends, pictures, videos, family history and a map to the grave’s exact location.
“It’s a way to tie together the old way of memorializing with granite headstones and the new trend of social networking, which is how a lot of people are grieving now,” Jon Reece, general manager of Quiring Monuments, told the Star.
He points to Facebook, where young people create memorial pages for dead loved ones, which often include photos and shared memories.“The younger generation … they are so technologically savvy … that trying to find something that relates to them and get their attention is really what we’re looking at,” he said.
Continues at: Headstones become interactive with new app – thestar.com.
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