Speak From the Dead Via Talking Tombstone
Embed your tombstone with RFID technology.
The Memorial RosettaStone Tablet could be seen in two ways: really cool or really creepy. This isn't some portable PC specially made for Rosetta Stone software. It's actually a $225 gadget that uses advanced object hyperlinking technology, allowing you to speak with graveside visitors long after your dead and buried. Again, really cool or really creepy.
Developed by Phoenix-based Objecs, the RosettaStone Tablet gives visitors access to images and text by touching an NFC-enabled cell phone to its surface. The device comes in various sizes: the Granite Tablet looks like a iphone-sized rock with engraved hieroglyphic style symbolism, called Life Symbols, which may be mounted within the tombstone. The Data Tag is quite smaller, roughly the size of a coin, and will adhere to any current tombstone. The third version, the Travertine, apparently seats in the ground when no headstone is used-- and also sports Life Symbols on its face.
"Each RosettaStone has the ability to communicate additional information in the form of text about its engraved Life Symbols," the company said. "You author this information and anyone with a web-enabled cell phone can access the information. This transfer is achieved by leveraging one or more object-based technologies including RFID, image recognition and hardlinking."
The RosettaStone device will supposedly last for hunreds of years. The company said that its internal microchip(s) use the phone's own magnetic field to power up just long enough to communincate and then return to a dormant state, all in less than one second. Currently the NFC aspect won't be available until the technology integrates into cell phones later this year.
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Creepy.
This would be rendered obsolete in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
Apple lawsuit in 3...2....1....
Any bets on how long till one is hacked and info changed?
I'd do it.
Stop stepping on my flowers...
Anyone steal my vases and I will haunt you...
No peeing here...
i'd put a rick rolled video when u activate it .... now that would lighten the mood a bit ...
interesting idea but i would like to see, dead coming back to life using science and technology...
"Help! Help! they buried me alive! Get help quick, I'm running out of air down here!"
"I Wasn't dead till you buried me"
lol, way to make a family feel guilty. ;p
for god sake
enter caption.
Stupid People will buy anything..
once your dead, your dead.. Why would you want to talk to the living.. I mean your in heaven right- free booze, chocolate and stuff with out the health issues..... and if your a Martyr aload of virgins. why would you wanna talk.....i know what id be doing..
if anyone buys this you must be mad.
Apple lawsuit in 3...2....1....
Every desktop operating system and mobile device violates at least one of our patents. Especially Windows and Android.
iDie?
In the UK this would get stolen or vandalized. Or both.
Yeah, and when this technology is rendered moot and nothing is backwards compatible with it, then what?
This is as bad as the KISS Koffins. Actually, the KISS Koffins are kind of cool, really!
That's the wrong use of "your" in the first paragraph. It should be the contraction "you're".
I think it's kind of cool. Unfortunetly we had my mother-in-law's burial this past weekend. As I walked around the cemetery, we found family graves from 100+ years ago. I wondered what stories these people from 100 years ago could tell or even what they sounded like. Then I thought, 150 years from now will my grandchildren ever want to hear what their great grandmother sounded like. This sort of device could help retain a little bit of history.
But isam, you are correct. The technology would be obsolete way too soon. Any device would need to be self encapsulated and not dependant on a mobile cell or RFID reader.
I'm gonna hang a set of those fake nuts on my gravestone. You know the ones they hang under the cars.
HOLY CRAP IT'S HOT DOWN HERE!!!
In the UK this would get stolen or vandalized. Or both.
Seriously, is there a lot of vandalism of grave monuments over there?
RosettaStone? How did they figure out how to speak to the dead and still offer it for the low price of $299.99?
Seriously, is there a lot of vandalism of grave monuments over there?
Every other week there is a story of some little a** wipe vandalizing graves (or maybe I read too much of the Daily Mail)