What would Leonardo Da Vinco come up with now?

Perhaps a personal helicopter or tiny plane that could whizz us across the world in about half an hour instead of about 35 hours please Leonardo.
A development of your earlier ideas?

And a way to transport water from areas with an over-abundance to areas of drought.

I enjoyed the book and the film but never for one moment thought it was based on fact. I don't understand people who mix up fiction and fact....mind you when I think about what's in the media

Read 'All our Wrong Todays' Elan Mastai you'd be interested.

Hi Sunseeker, Nissan are currently working on a shield, built into a box in the seat arm of a car, which stops the signal getting through. So before setting out you place your phone into the box and are not tempted into taking calls while driving. Da Vinci would be chuffed!

VQ Rosslynn gets invasions of tourists who believe every word of Dan Brown's book/film, and even expect to see a "descendent" living there. Well, there it is in black and white, isn't it?

Hollycat My mobile has had that facility for ages. It is called an OFF button. Alternatively, there is throwing it onto the back seat, out of reach. Do you think I should patent this and license the patent to Nissan? I could save them a lot of research and development money.

I fed up listening to recorded messages, and being told 'that my call is important to them.' If it was that important, why isn't there someone on the other end answering it??

I'd like Mr. Da Vinci to make sure that every call centre is staffed with real people to deal with my problems!

Something simple but useful (to me) would be the ability to turn car wheels by a right angle so you could slide sideways into a parking space parallel to the pavement!

If only someone could invent a glass magnet! When any glass breaks it shatters into so many minute bits that it's almost impossible to find them all. A magnet to attract the pesky bits would save much time and temper!!

A homing device for lost reading glasses, keys etc would be good.

He a!so invented contact lenses. My hero!

I did a late BA Hons degree in History of Art so Leonardo featured pretty heavily in some modules. I adore his wonderful paintings and drawings, and at the time I read a book by Michael White 'Leonardo As Scientist'. I really do think he was a scientist/inventor first . I upset my tutor saying that!

Leonardo was a polymath - artist, architect, engineer, inventor, anatomist and much more. He must be one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He wasn't just brilliant and imaginative, he applied himself, whether to satisfy his creative powers, his intellectual curiosity or to push forward the boundaries of knowledge. He must have had tremendous energy.

I'd like to think he'd work on an air purifying unit for cities!

Elegran.....I know people visit Rosslyn. I can't make my mind up whether they truly believe the book or want to see such an interesting church with it's links to the Knights Templar. Sadly I think it will be the former for a lot of visitors.

Hear hear MawBroon and Elegran! Load of tosh!

But all the crap sells books and films.

The pub at Rosslyn must be worth a fortune now.

I remember being in the organ loft at the chapel once , and the cobwebs had to be seen to believed, and it was freezing.

LOVELY CHURCH THO

I think he'd be busy inventing a super duper rocket for space travel - he was very interested in mans potential to fly.

I'd appreciate him inventing some sort of Klaxon for my garden as a reminder of my oven when I just 'pop out' to the rubbish bin and end up pottering for........HOW LONG...... ?!

vampirequeen what a brilliant idea. Although D.H. wants to know how you'd get rid of the waste! No doubt Leonardo would have a solution for that!! I wonder how many subsequent Leonardo thinkers have been unable to get their ideas accepted.

Sadly although the Da Vinci code was a great success and has brought shedloasdds of cash to Rosslyn,it has totally ruined the place.Ialways loved going there and wandering photographing the stone and even tracing the shapes with my fingers...alas no more ,When we took my canadian cousin there last year there was a woman tour guide on the altar and everyone had to sit/stand and listen to her spiel..which went on and on and on.Ruined the whole visit,Before Dan Brown and while the renovations were under way we even managed to go up on the scaffold ,up to the roof without a tour guide.I probably wont go back .