PARIS (AFP) - 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.
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