Quiring Monuments in the News

Headstones become interactive with new app

Quiring Monuments introduced the new technology for its headstones last month and 15 to 20 families are already using the feature, he said, adding law enforcement groups have expressed interest in using the technology for large monuments.
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Added on May 31, 2011
High-tech headstones immortalizing life stories

The cemetery is a simple place: grave markers, names, and dates. But one Seattle man is radically re-thinking the whole concept of what a gravestone is, and what the experience at a cemetery should be. When Dave Quiring visits the gravesite of his departed parents, he actually sees them, hears them, and interacts with them.
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Added on May 11, 2011
King 5 News: Smartphone, meet headstone: Seattle company offers digital epitaphs

Quiring has already created QR codes for both his parents, as well as six veterans who were Medal of Honor recipients, now buried at Washelli-Evergreen Cemetery in Seattle. In the two months since they started etching QR codes, Quiring said his company has created about 80 of them for buyers around the country.
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Added on August 5, 2011
NPR: Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites

The process of burying the dead hasn't changed much over the centuries, but now their gravestones can provide a digital link to their life stories. A Seattle-based company is creating burial markers that include a scannable, stamp-like image called a "quick read" — or QR code.
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Added on May 30th, 2011
QR Codes are not just for Marketing or Social promotion.

Quiring Monuments is a leading designer of headstones for memorials and monuments throughout the U.S. Owner Dave Quiring had been exploring different methods at making interactive gravestones for years before stumbling upon QR codes. After attempting to utilize many expensive and temperamental technologies, the codes proved to be just what he was looking for.
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Added on April 28, 2011
QR Codes Turn Headstones into Interactive Memorials - Living Headstone™

Quiring has created a new type of headstone which connects people regardless of where they reside. Our “Living Headstone™” memorial blends the timeless traditional value of granite headstones with the newest technology available, to provide an interactive “living” memorial legacy for future generations.
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Added on May 27, 2011
Quiring Monuments Launches New, Interactive Website

Quiring Monuments, a Seattle-based industry leader in designing and creating quality custom headstones, memorials, and monuments in North America, excitedly announces the launch of its new, interactive website, monuments.com.
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Added on February 29, 2012
Quiring Monuments, A Seattle institution for nearly 60 years, adapts to the latest technology

Quiring has now developed its own way of incorporating a QR code — a squarish-lookingbarcode that smartphones can read — into a grave marker through a small plastic-metal composite tag affixed to the gravestone and a QR-operated website to back it up.
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Added on April 26, 2011
Regina company uses QR codes to link gravestones to memorial information on web

If you visit Edouard Garneau's grave in Seattle, you'll see the usual bits of information etched into his bench-stle headstone -- his name, when he was born, and that he died last August at the age of 78.
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Added on February 15, 2012
Seattle Times: 'Living headstones' use technology to honor the dead

Wave a smartphone over the bench-style headstone of Edouard Garneau at Holyrood Cemetery in Shoreline and you'll learn he was a collision-repair specialist and successful businessman who loved to barbecue, fly his airplane and travel. You'll see pictures of Garneau and the life he shared with his wife, Faye, and of him with his airplane and riding on an elephant.
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Added on July 31, 2011
Small Businesses Using QR Codes to Engage Customers

"We have always wanted to add more information to our memorials and I have been searching for ways to do this," explained owner David Quiring, William Quiring's great nephew. While the company was always looking for headstone enhancements, the birth of the QR code showed Quring an opportunity unlike any before to reconcile the virtual and physical memorial: QR codes on headstones.
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Added on June 3, 2011
Turning Headstones into Living Memorials

What if the headstones were more than just markers with beginning and ending dates? Seattle's Quiring Monuments wants to turn the headstone into an interactive and living memorial. They're adding 2-D barcode readers to them so people can snap a picture with their smartphone and be transported to a special website dedicated to the dearly departed.
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Added on April 14th, 2011