No question use of QR codes is expanding rapidly for mobile online marketing, possibly even outpacing the growth of camera smartphones that make QR campaigns possible. But what Seattle Times reporter Susan Gilmore found recently (http://bit.ly/o2lBoc) stretches the envelope in a whole new dimension.
Gilmore found the bar code-like patterns embedded in headstones at Holyrood Cemetery in Shoreline, Oregon. When the codes are scanned by a smartphone or an iPad, the phone user is connected to a website with the deceased person’s written history, photos and videos. Quiring Monuments of Seattle has created some three dozen of the “living headstones” in the past several months, as well as putting QR codes on the headstones of six Medal of Honor recipients and two Silver Star recipients at Seattle’s Evergreen Washelli Cemetery.
The next step? Maybe QR code tattoos in appropriate places for singles bars?
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Jon Reece
285 days ago
Thank you for sharing what we’re doing with “Living Headstones” Memorials through the use of QR codes. Holyrood Catholic Cemetery is actually located in Shoreline, WA – 15 minutes north of Seattle.