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…
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…