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Solar powered alphabetical element heated patio tiles.
On a particularly enjoyable snowy experience within the comfort of your viewing distance, through the patio doors, select the garden patio tiles via a remote alphabetical controled keypad to select a letter belonging to a designated tile.
The
snow melts upon each selected tile, collectively they spell out a snowy ..
...[M][e][r][r][y]
[C][h][r][i][s][t][m][a][s]!
Information on Solar Tiles
http://www.thefind....den/info-solar-tile
An example of suitable product [Aristotle, Dec 20 2009]
[link]
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I feel the need to buy a vowel, for some odd reason.
Beautiful, in a Scrabblish-Yuletide sort of way. I like
the looking out of the patio scenario. Cozy. |
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[v][e][r][y] [n][i][c][e][!]
[+][1] |
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[s][h][o][d][d][y] [b][l][u][i][d][e][r][s][!][+] |
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[B][A][H][!] [H][u][m][b][u][g][!] |
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Imagines giant Hollywood Hills Sign equivalent being switched on during a future ice age. |
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Make it big enough and you could do Sudoku on it. |
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....[+]...
..[+][+]..
.[+][+][+].
[+][+][+][+] |
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[o][x][o]
[o][o][x]
[x][_][_] |
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[A][n][d][ ][a][ ][M][e][r][r][y] [C][h][r][i][s][t][m][a][s][ ][t][o][ ][y][o][u][ ][m][y][ ][o][l][d][ ][m][a][t][e][!] |
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(I don't think my patio's quite that big actually) |
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[Y][O][U][R][ ][D][I][N][N][E][R]['][S][ ][I][N][ ][T][H][E][ ][O][V][E][N] |
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Forecast is for a good part of 40-50 million people on
the Eastern Coast of US, is we gonna get slammed
tomorrow with blizzard like conditions and "feets" of
snow. I added the extra 's' for effect. |
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(they say the hurricane plotters have flown into this
storm to gather data, because it resembles one, a
hurricane that is, not a plotter.) |
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[Got] [some] [big] [tiles]? |
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In the summer, you could invite your guests to mingle on the patio barefoot while you programme rude and obscene messages. See who works it out first. |
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The danger here is that the tiles melt any snow or otherwise when they are on but allow the water to turn into ice when they're off. Frozen snow is ok to walk on, but ice isn't so obliging. Nevertheless... |
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[B][I][L][L][Y] [J][E][A][N]
[H][A][S] [H][A][D] [M][Y]
[C][R][O][I][S][S][A][N][T] ... |
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Replace the keypad with an electronic Ouija board (you still push-me-pull the planchette about with a partner). |
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What a fun way for the Spirits of the long departed to wish you a happy holidays! |
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Ah, the Spirit of Christmas .... a heady cocktail of wood alcohol and lighter fluid, with a dash of weedkiller. |
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It would appear that although alphabetical tiles
themselves don't exist there are solar tiles that could
be used to construct them, see link. |
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--- [O] ----------- [O]----
[O] --- [O] -- [O] --- [O]
--- [O] ----------- [O]----
--------[O] -- [O]---------
----------- [O] ------------
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Yea, you may think so :-) |
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[H][A][V][E] [A] [VERY] [M][E][R][R][Y] [G][O][O][D]
[T][I][M][E] [F][O][L][K][S] [!] |
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Hey Flaps how are you? Happy New Year to ya. |
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And to you and everyone else. |
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[B][O][D][Y] [U][N][D][E][R] [T][H] [I][S] |
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^ That is giving me OCD issues which I thought I had completely supressed [popbottle]. |
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