japanese high tech tombs

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hi-tech tombstones in Japan let mourners link to images, videos of deceased

The tombstones are being sold by stone processing company Ishinokoe. Behind doors on the tombstone that can be locked is a QR code -- a square code read by mobile phones that can link to Web addresses. Grave visitors can use the code to access images and photographs of the person while they were alive.

A cell phone is used to read a QR codeinside a tombstone on April 30.(credit: Kottke)

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