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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 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…

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 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 mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of the Common Cemetery (Almen Kirkegård) in Aalborg, Denmark. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS, plus walking directions to a series of points of…

A three-dimensional hologram of a tree that is designed for use at a cemetery or other memorial space, to allow users to express their sorrow at the death of their loved ones. Users interact with the tree by sending short text messages to its…

Cemetery management software that can provide visitors with a grave search function, explorable 3D map and ancillary features such as event lists. Available as an online website or an on-site touchscreen kiosk.

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…