Moving staircase hand rail that looks like an outwardly facing spine, with the intervertebral discs being replaced with rubber joints, allowing it flex and revolve properly, and the bony protuberances (the Superior Articular) forming good hand holds.
-- xenzag, Mar 21 2008

Would there be skulls every metre or so ?
-- 8th of 7, Mar 21 2008


Probably not as people might try to sit on them.
-- xenzag, Mar 21 2008


That's ravens, isn't it ?
-- 8th of 7, Mar 21 2008


I also have a sister idea - a design for a static handrail, based on a dinosaur spine - The Diplodocus Longus Bannisterus.
-- xenzag, Mar 22 2008


...and the finial? gotta have a finial.
-- po, Mar 22 2008


Wouldn't you rather ride the Vertabrescalator?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 22 2008


// gotta have a finial //

Skulls .... lots of skulls .....
-- 8th of 7, Mar 22 2008



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