AN American inventor wants to patent a way of sending a message from beyond the grave — a video-screen tombstone.
The device is the brainchild of Robert Barrow of Burlingame, California, the British weekly New Scientist reports in Saturday’s issue.
The hollow headstone houses a computer with a hard disc or memory chip that allows the deceased to relay a video message via a flat LCD touch screen.
“They might relate their life stories… or worse: they could confess to lurid indiscretions,” the British weekly says.
The tombstone would draw its electrical supply from the cemetery’s lighting system, and to avoid disturbing other visitors, people can listen to the message through wireless headphones.
Electronically-enhanced tombstones are not new, however.
Other inventions include a gravestone that displays a collection of the deceased’s photographs, alongside tributes from that person’s friends.
By: Moggy C - 6th August 2015 at 12:38
I did think about buying a copy, but £8 of my hard-earned is too much for a joke, even though one day it may become valuable as an astonishing artefact from the 21st Century
Meanwhile feast yer mincers on the blurb.
Come join 13-year-old Brenna Strong along with her mom, Bea, and her dad, Richard, as they spend a typical Saturday running errands and having fun together. What’s not so typical is that Brenna’s parents lawfully open carry handguns for self-defense. The Strongs join a growing number of families that are standing up for their 2nd Amendment rights by open carrying and bringing gun ownership out of the closet and into the mainstream. If you open carry and have a difficult time explaining why to your family and friends, or if you want to learn about the open carry of a handgun, or if you’ve wondered if open carry is right for you, then this book is what you need.
My Parents Open Carry was written in the hope of providing a basic overview of the right to keep and bear arms as well as the growing practice of the open carry of a handgun. We fear our children are being raised with a biased view of our constitution and especially in regards to the 2nd Amendment. Before writing this, we looked for pro-gun children’s books and couldn’t find any. Our goal was to provide a wholesome family book that reflects the views of the majority of the American people, i.e., that self-defense is a basic natural right and that firearms provide the most efficient means for that defense. We truly hope you will enjoy this book and read and discuss it with your children over and over again. As you read this book, you will learn about the growing practice of open carry, the 2nd Amendment, and the right and responsibility of self-defense. Home School Teachers: This book is an excellent text to use as a starting point on the discussion of the 2nd Amendment.
Dear God!
Moggy
By: Meddle - 6th August 2015 at 12:36
“They were amazed that I didn’t think it necessary to carry a gun”
You live where? In Scotland ?
Very perceptive of you. Said commentators were readily aware that I lived in Scotland, so I imagine that they thought that the keys + wallet + gun routine was universal for any person popping out for milk.
By: John Green - 6th August 2015 at 12:20
“They were amazed that I didn’t think it necessary to carry a gun”
You live where? In Scotland ?
By: Moggy C - 6th August 2015 at 11:38
The father has very feminine eyes.
Not to mention the ‘Village People’ bushy moustache
By: Meddle - 6th August 2015 at 11:24
The father has very feminine eyes. He’s been living a lie for all these years, and watched most of his paycheck get funnelled into that wee kid down the front that clearly isn’t his (hers?). An emotionally unstable individual like that should be nowhere near a gun.
I jest, but there is a palpable homoeroticism about the tougher gun nut crowd. All that camo and tucked-in poloshirts I guess. Pretending you are military grade when you are 60% body fat and generally getting in the way physically, politically and emotionally. I’m always amazed that such hardliner survivalist gun-nut instincts preclude any form of physical exercise. “I don’t need to be fit, I’ve got my gun”, being the order of the day.
I guess nobody has the heart to tell him that insulin pumps will probably not exist in a post-apocalyptic society and that his daughter will have to bandage his gangrenous stumps once his feet fall off. Still, she has a rifle to play with!
I’ve butted heads with US folks on other forums. They were amazed that I didn’t think it necessary to carry a gun every time I leave my home to go buy milk from the corner shop.
By: Lincoln 7 - 6th August 2015 at 11:13
Can I get a copy Moggs off Amazon?…………………….:D…….Was the Auther J. Boyl by any chance?.
Jim
Lincoln .7
By: STORMBIRD262 - 7th November 2006 at 06:49
NURSE!!!!!!!
By: Tillerman - 29th October 2006 at 00:42
How about a ‘B-24 cockpit section caravan’? Would perfectly fit behind my old Land Rover!
Tillerman.
By: David Burke - 28th October 2006 at 15:35
Moggy – Are you thinking of the former Luftwaffe R boat which was captured in Norway . It was used for raids against German forces by SAS troops. Brought to the U.K she ended up in Ramsgate harbour – laterly she was at Sandwich where she was eventually destroyed by gales after being left derelict.
By: Moggy C - 28th October 2006 at 14:18
ZRX61 – There are the somewhat sad remains of MTB’s about still . However there are avtive efforts to restore a few ..
Regrettably there was an e-boat that was recovered, largely restored, then scrapped when the money ran out a few years back.
Moggy
By: JDK - 28th October 2006 at 12:02
JDK – ona a similar theme there was the ‘Maravan’ converted into a caravan from a Martin Mariner .
I’d forgotten that. Now at Bull Creek I think.
By: David Burke - 28th October 2006 at 10:40
JDK – ona a similar theme there was the ‘Maravan’ converted into a caravan from a Martin Mariner .
By: JDK - 28th October 2006 at 10:37
As for other houseboats – Britain and Australia seem to lead in terms of the exotic turned into houseboats !
There’s a Dornier Do24 forward hull used as a houseboat on the River Murray (apparently still around nowadays) and a Catalina amphibian hull which is still fitted with its undercarriage.
By: David Burke - 28th October 2006 at 10:35
ZRX61 – There are the somewhat sad remains of MTB’s about still . However there are avtive efforts to restore a few and indeed a famous one is a houseboat in London. MTB’s come an incredibly close second to aircraft in my estimation!
By: ZRX61 - 28th October 2006 at 05:06
As for other houseboats – Britain and Australia seem to lead in terms of the exotic turned into houseboats !
When I was a kid back in the ’60’s I well remember a load of MTB’s around the Southampton/Fareham area converted into houseboats, also a few around the backwaters of Walton On Naze in Essex…
By: David Burke - 27th October 2006 at 18:23
Mike – ‘Only in America’ – is the name of the programme hence my starting sentence
‘Tomorrow mornings episode at 10 am …………
As for other houseboats – Britain and Australia seem to lead in terms of the exotic turned into houseboats !
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 27th October 2006 at 15:23
ahhhh The Cosmic Muffin!!! Wonderful!!!
TT
By: J Boyle - 27th October 2006 at 14:36
Lest any of you think the plane was sacrificed at the whim of someone, let me point out the aircraft was wrecked by a hurricane in the mid-60s back when the value of a 307 (a pressurized airliner with B-17 wings/tail) was near zero.
Overall, a neat use for an old airframe. Not as good as a flying aircraft, but at least it’s still around.
By: David Burke - 27th October 2006 at 12:52
CBBC
By: RPSmith - 27th October 2006 at 12:47
Which channel please?
Roger Smith.
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