Tombstones and Mobile Phones
Posted by Sebastien on the 2010/01/08 at 01:06
in Japan, Local, Mobile, Trends - 2 Comments
This video shows an interesting use of mobile phones in Japan. By embedding a QR code in tombstones, visitors can use their mobile phone to access additional information about the deceased. These stones are made by Ishinokoe.
(sent to me by Pascal Cardinal)
What it means: mobile + physical objects can lead to interesting, think-out-of-the-box ideas. I believe we’ve only scratched the surface of future “local” innovation.
love this. An interesting evolution of this concept – as we continue to leave digital breadcrumbs connected to physical objects (e.g. Yelp Reviews of a restaurant) our descendants will be able to set their mobile devices to detect whenever they are near a place that we had a connection to – and display whatever we posted about that place. In a way it will be like we never left. Our digital ghosts will always be around saying stuff like “great pizza!” & “lousy service!”.
Do you remember the deadpages idea we had years ago!