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Die-Fi: Wireless Tombstones Have Arrived

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OBJECS, A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY SPECIALIZING in the exchange of digital information between people and objects, has developed a new group of technology enhanced memorial products that make it possible for cemetery visitors to access text and photos by simply touching a cell phone against a new or existing cemetery headstone.

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The product is available as a palm-sized stone tablet or as a coin-sized stick-on polymer tag that includes genealogical information and any other personal facts that the family wishes to make available.  According to a press release issued on Tuesday,

The products, each with their own microchip, leverage multiple cell phone technologies allowing anyone with an Internet enabled cell phone to access a tag’s related information, but the most advanced of those technologies is Near Field Communications-Radio Frequency Identification (NFC-RFID), a globally emerging communications standard soon to be available in the United States. This is the technology that allows a headstone to be touched by a cell phone and return information to the screen.

In normal environmental conditions, Objecs claims that the tag will be readable for as long as 300 years.

Visit their WEBSITE HERE to learn more and place your order now.

Posted by on February 25, 2010 • Filed under: culture, News, technology • Tagged: , ,
  • B.Morgan

    Well this just brings us a step closer to speaking to the dead. No more having to pay for a clairvoyant to speak to your deceased loved ones or having to deal with that eccentric relative who sits by the grave all night burning candles, incense and perhaps smoking some of that wacky weed and relating their visions and thoughts of the deceased the next day.

    Just go to the family plot and dial them up. One can pre-record their own message from the grave prior to expiring and prove to the great-grand kids that you were as off center as every one said and leave vague hints to where the family horde of gold is buried.

    Long after I'm gone I want them to figure it out on their own if I attended Woodstock in 69, and had long hair, slid out of helicopters on ropes into forest fires and where that FIREGEEZER mug came from that's attached to my headstone.

    Well the sun is well over the yardarm so it's time to take this discussion in the direction of a beer or two…

  • B.Morgan

    Well this just brings us a step closer to speaking to the dead. No more having to pay for a clairvoyant to speak to your deceased loved ones or having to deal with that eccentric relative who sits by the grave all night burning candles, incense and perhaps smoking some of that wacky weed and relating their visions and thoughts of the deceased the next day.

    Just go to the family plot and dial them up. One can pre-record their own message from the grave prior to expiring and prove to the great-grand kids that you were as off center as every one said and leave vague hints to where the family horde of gold is buried.

    Long after I'm gone I want them to figure it out on their own if I attended Woodstock in 69, and had long hair, slid out of helicopters on ropes into forest fires and where that FIREGEEZER mug came from that's attached to my headstone.

    Well the sun is well over the yardarm so it's time to take this discussion in the direction of a beer or two…