What would Leonardo Da Vinco come up with now?

grannyknot you trendy young thing!!

What a brilliant man he was - both in art and science.

Oh annsixty, worry not!

BTW, It took my kindle quite a bit of persuading that your name wasn't "annuity" !

And mawbroon when someone says "Leonardo", I think di Caprio

annsixty I wasn't getting at you, or anyone else, my off-the-cuff remark was made in jest! Now I'm the one who's sorry

So sorry if I am considered a member of the Preview/pedantic police. I truly was trying to be witty, I promise I will never do it again.

I saw an exhibition of his engineering inventions and what impressed me was he invented ball bearings amongst other things. He was wihout doubt the greatest inventor and I suppose now he would be an IT man. Or working in space or both combined, who knows?

Why complicate life? He is generally referred to as Leonardo it's just that wretched Dan Brown man with his silly book who calls him Da Vinci!
Fewer words = fewer typos (if only)

Sorry for the typos in my post! - the Preview Police will be on my case.

phoenix I was a bit obsessed with Da Vinci when I was at junior school, I would choose to do every project be it history, art, biology, natural science geography and more him and his inventions at the centre

For one of my birthday when I was in my late forties, my son made me a poster listing all Da Vinci's achievements and well known drawings, for a gift, he printed it and had it laminated. So I must have been going on about him to my children

If he was around now perhaps he would be able to develop a car that sensed an impact and became temporarily airborne/changed into a flying machine, to avoid the crash.

Sunseeker, if only! I'm sure there is something like that, to do with shields or hmmmmm??? But wouldn't it be wonderful. Also a pointy gadget to silence all those interminable phone calls on trains and buses.

I would like to see some kind of gadget that sets off a klaxon alarm whenever a dog, out walking with its owner, poops on the pavement. Then, if the owner of the dog doesn't pick up the mess and remove it, everyone would know who the offender was. I'm not sick of stepping in dog crap, oh no, not me.

I would like to see something, which is probably possible already, which switches off any mobile phone inside a car whilst the engine is on. Equally something that swithes them off when the person carrying them walks into a theatre, cinema or restaurant!

Only just noticed the Vinco in the thread title, bloody Kindle

Humph!

Sorry about that but I couldn't resist it although you could have been asking about his cousin on his mother's side.?

I wish that Leonardo da Vinci would invent a gadget that would make amazon delivery men wait until I get to the door instead of making me play 'search the parcel' and then finding I can't lift it as it's too low down!

Should also be da Vinci but we all have fat fingers sometimes.

Aarrgh, should be "were" not "are".