Digital Tombstones Are The New Way You Rest In Peace
Digital Tombstones Are The New Way You Rest In Peace
Forget the flowers, the next big thing in the life of beloved memory, one can just weather resistant and high-tech digital scrapbooking, powered by a solar cell. This product, known as the Serenity panel, developed by Vidstone LLC, distributed by Riverview Monuments in Wausau, Wisconsin, and it sells for about $ 2000.
As with most technological innovations, the product of the word is spreading slowly. Doug Ellis of Riverview Monuments told CNN in a recent interview, adding he has not sold that many customers say that this is not the style. He believes that the Wausau area is a bit more cautious and it takes time to grow.
The committee, according to CNN, will return to the front of the gravestone and pays tribute to the deceased in color pictures, words, music and even videos, all thanks to a small memory chip “for the camera, the technology developed two years ago by Vidstone LLC, a company with offices in Florida and Colorado.
According Vidstones national sales director in Aurora, Colorado, the company has approximately 100 dealers across the country, two in Minnesota, four in Illinois and seven in Michigan, and Wisconsin.
She whose sales, please Lucking told CNN. Tho, he confirmed many have not.
Maria Schlitzbeger of Schliztberger and Daughters Monument Co. in Houston, said his company has sold one serenity panel in one years.
It is a big step forward, allowing electronics to your tombstone, she told CNN. People are used to sandblasted granite and marble.
According to Lucking, even as a digital video album on a tombstone may seem a bit strange for most people, can be compared to the advent of mobile phones, while only a few are the rest themselves and vowed that once.
Most funeral homes now use LCD displays to create multimedia presentations during services. Since there are five or six years have increased video tributes.
The screen, powered by the sun, and headphone jacks for private listening to audio.
Ellis thought it a good thing for the industry. Something unique, something a bit beyond the standard engraving and pictures that end in a monument at the moment.
He does not see why someone couldnt stand for a video camera and give a message to the grandchildren. Is this the next step in a continually growing and future mp3 leap forward in technology or products quickly and lose in the bag technology, will only tell.
