RosettaStone that communicates from the beyond
(Credit: Objecs)
Yet more ways for the dearly departed to reach out beyond the grave. We've seen memorializing on Facebook, even tombstones with video screens where the dead get to speak their piece in an endless loop. Now, here's yet another way to communicate with the dead, high-tech style, minus the abracadabra of séances and mediums.
Objecs has created the RosettaStone, a headstone that comes embedded with RFID technology and uses NFC (near-field communication) to stream personal information, photos and even messages to any mobile device on the deceased lying beneath.
At US$225, consider it a "lifetime" investment if you're dead concerned about vanishing into obscurity down the generations. For those in space-starved Asian cities where your final resting place is more likely to be in an urn, the RosettaStone is an iPod-sized rock that should just about fit into that tiny repository in the wall.
That said, this isn't a novel idea. The enterprising Japanese have had their own Ishinokoe or "voice of stone", with commemoration windows that sport Japan's version of a 2D barcode (the QR Code) inside. Visitors simply snap a picture of the code with their mobile phone, and voila, instant access to the deceased's photos and profile. Going one step further, this will eventually even keep a log of visitors, as well as enable virtual grave visiting via cell phone for added convenience. For better or for worse, till death do us not part, so it would seem.
Via Discovery
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