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Establish a company to sell advertising space on
                       plaster casts, neck braces and slings. The medium
                       might attract insurance companies or private
                       healthcare operators. The advertising monies could be
                       used to fund a patient’s treatment and medication.

                                Sam Torme

3255December2001
          Editor’s note:
   Steven Qua definitely

          tapped into the
       zeitgeist with this

           idea. We were
     subsequently sent
  variations on this idea
   by numerous others,

         all of whom had

326probablysufferedthe
                         Design a mobile phone with an in-built breathalyser that
                         would bar the user from making potentially
                         embarrassing or abusive calls to unfortunate friends
                         and family when under the influence of alcohol. The
                         phone could be programmed to allow drunken calls to,
                         say, three numbers – taxi, police and pizza.

                         Steven Qua

embarrassment of 7 December 2001

accidentally, or rather

too bravely, calling

their parents at three

o’clock in the morning.
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