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Design electronic tags for clothing with memory chips
that hold data describing the colour, mix of materials
and year of design of the garment. Owners of such
clothing could assemble outfits and request the chips
to check with each other to determine if the various
garments clash or coordinate. As an example, socks

269would trigger an alarm when introduced to sandals.
Dan Friedman
6 August 2001
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270offensiveare
Devise a location-based SMS text game using GPS in
which registered players would be given an arsenal of
virtual bombs and explosives that could be detonated in
public by sending a text message to a shortcode. The
messages would be received by a server, which would
calculate the number of players within the blast area of
the explosion at that specific time. This total would be

published if it is felt credited to the mobile terrorist, while each player hit
they could actually be would lose a point or a life.
popular with others or

in some way inspire Sam Torme
other more positive 7 August 2001

ideas.