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Develop a shopping ID card that could be swiped at the
till, allowing stores to email a receipt rather than print
one. This would save paper, as most receipts are
discarded, and would ensure a record of purchase is
kept securely. Email receipts could upload directly to
spreadsheets for business customers.
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Launch a company called Second Skin to trade in used
tattoos. The tattoos would be acquired from dead Editor’s note:
people who had bequeathed their skin, or by living There is a classic film
donors in desperate need of money. Customers would called ‘The Hands of
choose designs to be grafted onto their own bodies. Dr Orlac’ in which a
Antique, or vintage celebrity tattoos could become theconcert pianist loses
his hands in an
400nextfashionmust-have. accident and a
surgeon (played by
Peter Lorre) replaces
them with the hands
David Owen of a recently hung
4 October 2002 serial killer. That didn’t
turn out too well
though.