The Memory Medallion is a small disc, about the size of a half dollar, which is embedded in a monument, memorial or grave marker. Inside the Medallion is a digital memory device that holds a photograph and life story of your loved one.

I walked in the beautiful Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, Ca this morning. It is lovely, 5 generations family owned and old - some headstones date to the late 1800's which is about as old as you get in SoCal.

They don't even have a website, and yet they have this very cool information imbedding system. You borrow a little handheld device and are able to learn more about people than "Beloved Father" by reading data from a small, coin shaped medallion on specific headstones.

The information is disappointingly skimpy at this point - just a black and white photo and a generic obituary but imagine when people will use these to present their Lifelogs - images, blogs, transcripts and full geneological data. People will be telling their stories after death with information captured digitally throughout a lifetime.

Imagine something like this at the Vietnam War Memorial.

Hopefully they are using a technology that will allow continued access in the more distant future.

Death Tech