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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.

399JamesHamilton
                                2 October 2002
                       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.
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