Wireless Enabled Granite Solves Problem of No Headstone for Green Burial

New product provides the geographic location of the burial site by one touch of a compatible cell phone.
Tithe Green burial ground A woodland burial site

A woodland burial site (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Phoenix, Arizona – Objecs, the owner of the RosettaStone brand of memorial products, has introduced a one pound granite obelisk for use in green burial memorials where traditionally no headstone is present.

The stone obelisk is made from a solid block of premium black granite and sized for shelf or desktop placement. The leading feature of the product is its ability to provide the geographic location of the burial site by one touch of a compatible cell phone against the stone’s surface.

The stone integrates Near Field Communication (NFC) components including a single microchip requiring no maintenance and no battery. The new product uses the same long-term data archive method and file format as existing RosettaStone products.

The Obelisk is the third consumer product in as many years that uses the company’s patent pending integration method of NFC and the granite family of natural stone.

“Only a tiny percentage of families even know about green burial at this point, but those that do are quite passionate about the environmental choice they make, even to the point of last wish,” said John Bottorff, General Manager of Objecs. “Regardless of burial choice, our products are designed to provide more than a name and a date to future generations upon discovery.”

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2 Responses to Wireless Enabled Granite Solves Problem of No Headstone for Green Burial

  1. avatar John Donaldson says:

    This is the first I’ve heard of this but I think it could be the wave of the future. Instead of a few brief facts carved into a headstone, this stone obelisk made from a solid block of premium black granite containing geographic location of the burial site by one touch of a compatible cell phone against the stone’s surface could eventually contain an obituary and possibly ‘a message from the grave’ the voice of the deceased.

    I’m also thinking of this taking geocaching to a whole new level!

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