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 customised metal plaque that affixes to a gravestone and features a QR code that links to an online memorial page. The memorial pages can display text and photos from the deceased person's life. The company's website has been defunct since 2015.
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 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.
An early attempt to create an experience of "talking" to a deceased person at their gravesite, developed in the mid-1970s. The solar-powered interactive tombstone included an analogue speaker system and, later, a video display, which played…
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…
An online memorial site and mobile app for families and friends to upload images, videos, obituaries, tribute messages and genealogical information about a deceased person, as well as details about the location of their burial site, which can be used…
A porcelain plaque that affixes to a gravestone or other monument and features a built-in near field communication (NFC) chip that links to an online memorial page when scanned by a smartphone. The memorial page can display text, photos and video…