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A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS plus the location of points of interest within the cemetery. For each point of…

A website that displays a continual live-streamed video of Andy Warhol's grave at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, PA. It is named "Figment" in tribute to something that Warhol once said: "I always thought I’d like my…

A video display system designed to be installed at the foot of a grave and operated by remote control. The display panel is on an electrical lifting mechanism, which raises it to waist height while in use. When switched off, the display panel…

A prototype wearable electronic system designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. The system comprises a backpack with a tablet computer and personal GPS tracking system, a set of headphones and a…

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 mobile app that allows the user to set a GPS location as a memorial place for a deceased person. When friends or family visit the location with the app, they can use their phone to see a photograph of the deceased person superimposed on the…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS plus the location of points of interest within the cemetery. For each point of…

An artwork based around a mobile app that is designed to be used at a cemetery. The cemetery in question changes as the artwork must be set up for a particular site. Vanitas presents the user with a combination of text, images and audio recordings…

An audiovisual display system embedded in a gravestone and operated by a remote control device. The patent for the system describes it as follows: "A tombstone for communicating audio and visual data related to the deceased from the tombstone to a…

A crowdsourced online database of genealogical records, including details about cemeteries and graveyards as well as census and legal records. Cemetery records include photographs of headstones and transcriptions of the information available on or…