A historic graveyard in Slovenia has joined the technical school rotation . As Reuters report , Cemetery Pobrežje — located in the nation ’s secondly - largest metropolis of Maribor — is now home to what cemetery functionary neb as the world ’s first digital interactive gravestone .
create by Slovenian company Bioenergija , the gravestone has a 48 - inch interactive screen . When visitors are n’t around , the screen just point the asleep ’s name , and birth and death date . sensor are activated when someone stands in front of the Harlan Fiske Stone , prompting it to flutter to life .
When the digital tombstone is " awake , " it ’s up to of displaying pictures , video , and other case of digital odes to the deceased . designer also design on make a smartphone app , so visitor can teem audio to their personal devices . As for hardheaded fear , the headstone is said to be both weatherproof and vandal - trial impression , create it a low - maintenance grave marker ( although Bioenergija still has n’t deal if it ’s vulnerable to hackers ) .
" This gravestone makes it potential to put anything next to the at rest person ’s name and surname , ” Milan Zorman , a computer scientist who help create the headstone , told Express.co.uk . “ you’re able to write an intact novel if you care . ”
The headstone in Cemetery Pobrežje is only a prototype , but Bioenergija mind Saso Radovanovic told Reuters that they ’ve already receive a few order . As might be expected , their digital tombstones are n’t garish : They be around $ 3200 , on par witha gamy - end laptop computer . While these new tombstones may be the first of their form , it is n’t the first time gravestones have run low technical school : QR codeson grave have been providing digital commemoration for the past few old age .
Watch how the digital tombstones work in the picture below :
[ h / tReuters ]
