A crowdsourced online database of cemetery records hosted on the genealogy site WikiTree. Cemeteries are listed with details of their name and location, along with a list of the people interred therein and details of the deceased people such as their…
A business in Nagoya, Japan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, arranging flowers and lighting incense. The worker live-streams their maintenance so that the customer and…
A business in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, fertilising and leaving flowers or a wreath. Photos of the freshly maintained grave and other details…
A design for a gravesite holographic projection system, filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in September 2003. The patent described the system as follows: "A system for conveying information about a deceased individual. The system…
A location-based videogame for iOS and Android mobile devices. It displays a map of the world scattered with nodes that represent the location of virtual "portals". Players compete to control these portals by travelling to their physical location,…
A prototype media installation designed to create the appearance of a stone gravestone with moving imagery on its face. The prototype was made out of a wooden frame and transparent acrylic sheet painted to look like stone, with imagery back-projected…
A crowdsourced online database of cemetery records. Cemeteries are listed with details of their name, location and history, along with a list of the people interred therein and details such as their birth date, death date, spouse's name, gravestone…
A website and app operated by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of Hong Kong. Provides a registry of online memorials for people who have been buried, cremated or otherwise interred at a Hong Kong cemetery or columbarium. Each memorial…
A tombstone containing a plaque with a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial page can display photos, videos and personal information about the deceased person.
A tombstone with a large embedded digital display that displays content about the deceased person when approached by a cemetery visitor using proximity sensors. The media content may be scrolling text, video or audio.