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Forget the flowers, the next big thing in life for the Dearly Departed monuments can only be weatherproof, digital scrapbook, high-tech powered by a solar cell. This product, known as the Serenity panel developed by Vidstone LLC, is sold for Riverview Monuments in Wausau, Wisconsin, and price approximately $ 2,000.
As with most technological innovations, product word is spreading slowly.
Doug Ellis of Riverview Monuments to CNN in a recent interview, adding that hasn't sold that many customers say it is not there style. He believes the Wausau area is a little more conservative and it will take time for expansion.
The panel, according to CNN, equivalent to the front of the gravestone and pays tribute to those killed in pictures color, words, music and even videos, all courtesy of a small memory chip on the front of the device, the technology developed two years ago by Vidstone LLC, a company with offices in Florida and Colorado.
According to National Sales Director Vidstones in Aurora, Colorado, the company has approximately 100 dealers from across the country, two in Minnesota, four in Illinois, and seven in Michigan, and one in Wisconsin.
They do not release sales figures, Lucking CNN. Tho confirmed its not a great number at this time.
Mary Schlitzbeger of Schliztberger and Daughters Monument Co. in Houston, said his company has sold one serenity panel in a year.
Its a big step, putting electronics on your headstone, told CNN. People are used to jet granite and marble sand.
According to Lucking, despite a scrapbook digital video in a plot may sound a little strange to most people, can be compared to the advent of cellular telephony, though only few of them owned and vowed to never rest.
Most funeral homes now LCDs used for multimedia presentations during services. From five or six years ago, video tributes have increased.
The screen, powered by the sun, includes headphone jack for private listening to audio.
Ellis thought it was a clear thing for the industry. Something unique, something a little above and beyond the standard engraving and pictures that end up in a monument at the present time.
We see no reason why someone couldnt stand in front a video camera and give a message to the existence grandchildren. Is this the next step in a future of ever-expanding mp3 and leaps in technology or product is and soon lost in the stock of technology, only time will tell.
