For National Inventors Month: A Video Tombstone...The next big thing in Movies, Books and TV

SAN MATEO, Calif. - April 27, 2016 - PRLog -- MAY IS NATIONAL INVENTORS MONTH IN AMERICA...AND HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT AN INVENTION THAT WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON MANY ASPECTS OF SOCIETY...

The invention is a video tombstone called the Video Enhanced Gravemarker (U.S. Patent #7,089,495)... "And long before video tombstones start appearing in cemeteries on a regular basis, they will start appearing in movies, books and TV," according to Robert Barrows of San Mateo, California.

Barrows is the inventor of the Video Enhanced Gravemarker and he has also written a book based on stories told through video tombstones. The book is called "Cemetery of Lies."

You can see more about the video tombstone at www.barrows.com/invention.html and you can see more about "Cemetery of Lies" at www.barrows.com/novel.html

"VIDEO TOMBSTONES WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON MANY ASPECTS OF SOCIETY...AND THEY WILL ALSO CREATE SOME TREMENDOUS CONTROVERSIES AND FREE SPEECH ISSUES," says Barrows.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE FREE SPEECH ISSUES THAT MIGHT BECOME ASSOCIATED WITH VIDEO TOMBSTONES:

1) What if someone confesses to a crime or makes an incrimination?

2) What if they say something slanderous?

3) What if they say something hurtful, or something that causes emotional stress?

4) What if they say something anti-governmental?

5) What if they leak state secrets? Do the dead have free speech rights, too?

6) And, what can you do if they say something that is true or untrue or not so nice about you?

*How can you pull the plug and whom can you sue?

*Worse yet, how can you collect?

"With these kinds of possibilities, video tombstones might create some very interesting free speech issues that could go all the way to the Supreme Court," says Barrows.

"Video tombstones will also create a tremendous amount of controversy because who knows what somebody might say from beyond their grave through their video tombstone...and will it be truth or lies?" he adds.

VIDEO TOMBSTONES WILL ALSO HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON MANY ASPECTS OF SOCIETY:

1) Video tombstones will change the way we look at life and death.

2) Video tombstones will change the way that history is told.

3) The advent of the video tombstone will also create some changes in estate law so that people may have to specify that "Yes, they do want a video tombstone, or No, they do not want a video tombstone." And, if they themselves don't make a video for use in their own video tombstone, they might have to specify who among their survivors might make a video, and what they might be able to say.

4) Video tombstones will make cemeteries fascinating places to visit.

5) Video tombstones will create two new industries:

A) Manufacturing video tombstones, and...

B) Producing videos for use in video tombstones

6) Video tombstones will create some major new revenue opportunities for many sectors of the funerary industry including monument builders, funeral homes, perpetual care fund providers and cemeteries.

7) Plus, video tombstones will also create a whole new genre of storytelling, perfect for movies, books and TV because the video tombstone is an ideal storytelling device for all kinds of stories.

Along these lines, Barrows also wrote a book based on stories told through video tombstones. The book is called "Cemetery of Lies." Cemetery of Lies is a collection of intimate secret confessions, as told from beyond the grave, through video tombstones. "The stories are about life and love, sex and romance, good and evil, success and money, truth and lies and Heaven and Hell, says Barrows. And... "Cemetery of Lies" is an easy read for a mass audience and the writing is sexy, provocative and humorous, too." You can see more about "Cemetery of Lies" at www.barrows.com/novel.html

SO, WHAT KINDS OF STORIES WOULD WE HEAR FROM YOUR OWN VIDEO TOMBSTONE IF YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO CHECK OUT TODAY?

1) Would you just say sweet things to loved ones?

2) Would it finally be time to make amends?

3) Would it finally be time to tell your side of the story?

4) Or, would it be time to say everything you never had the guts to say nor the opportunity to say while you were still alive?

THEY SAY "DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES"...WELL, NOT ANYMORE...

Who knows what kinds of things we might be hearing from the video tombstones down at the "Cemetery of Lies," says Barrows. And what kinds of secrets would you divulge for playback (or payback) after you are gone? And who knows who was doing what with whom? Perhaps we shall find out from their video tombstones?

SO, WHEN YOU ARE PLANNING YOUR STORIES FOR NATIONAL INVENTORS MONTH, OR FOR OUR DIGITAL AFTERLIFE...OR EVEN FOR MEMORIAL DAY...AND ESPECIALLY FOR HALLOWEEN...imagine the stories that might be told from video tombstones...they could just become the next big thing in movies, books and TV and cemeteries, too.

AND... WHAT WOULD YOU RECORD FOR YOUR VIDEO TOMBSTONE IF YOU STARTED RECORDING IT TODAY...

Before you start recording...First, let's get the lighting and the sound right, and then...check your wardrobe, your hair and makeup...and then..."Lights, Camera, Action!" And don't worry, you can always edit out anything you don't think you should say.

For more information about the Video Enhanced Gravemarker and "Cemetery of Lies," contact Robert Barrows at R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising & Public Relations in San Mateo, California at 650-344-4405, www.barrows.com