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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it--Ted Williams

"It’s almost like we have ESPN"—Magic Johnson, on how well he works with teammate James Worthy

TOMB WITH A VIEW, How's this for voices from the grave: California inventor Robert Barrows is seeking a patent for tombstones that display video messages from the dearly departed. For a small fee, the bereaved or the merely curious could view any of the screens in the cemetery by renting wireless headsets and remote controls.

Don't want strangers hearing your life's story? Barrows plans to add a signal blocker so that only approved viewers can watch. He expects a patent ruling in the next six to twelve months; if he gets the okay, he hopes that customers will shell out 20 to 30 percent more for talking tombstones than non-gabby graves.

Other entrepreneurs have already made the leap into high-tech grieving. Making Everlasting Memories, a Cincinnati based company, has a patent for grave screens that display photos and family tributes.

LastWishes.com lets you e-mail posthumous messages, video and audio clips to loved ones after you’re gone. (You write the notes before you die, of course.) Now you can nag family members well into the next life.

Most CI cryostats are round, making it difficult to mount a flat screen monitor on them. However there are three rectangular in shape. (HSSV-R7, R10 and R14.) AARP MAGAZINE How about it, Ben, put flat screen monitors on them??