Raise The Dead With Your Cellphone!

File this one under holy crap!

Japanese headstone supplier Ishinokoe embedded a barcode users can scan with a cellphone that'll reveal images and text on one's mobile device. This way you can "virtually" pay your respects.

It's great for the kids, too. You know those kids with their fancy gadgets and such. Now it won't be such a chore to visit the cemetery—they can text their friends and check out pictures of grandma circa 1978. Huzzah for forward-thinking!

The not-yet-dead can likely program whatever they want on their tombstone. So, fellow zombie-lovers: what would you encrypt on your crypt?

I'd program mine so that images of decayed corpses flash amid seizure-inducing strobe lights and emit high-pitched screams. Also, probably a poem.

Japan e-crypt offers a tomb with a view [Reuters]