From The Point (March '96; published by the First Millennial Foundation, Pasadena Chapter, 235 E. Colorado Blvd., No. 371 Pasadena, CA 91101, USA).
Mara Gendel of Long Beach, California, has designed a 'Tombstone of Tomorrow'. She proposes a gravestone with a flat display screen on it. People visiting could just reach out and activate a prerecorded message from the deceased person. It could be a spoken message or scenes the person wanted to be remembered by.
Her idea won her the Great Idea Contest in the February '96 issue of Popular Science, a contest for young people, aged 8 to 16, who had come up with new inventions.
This webpage forms part of the Global Ideas Bank (www.globalideasbank.org).
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