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Design a novelty, talking mirror, which would be pre-    Editor’s note:
                       programmed to offer random fashion and diet tips, such   Sometimes we get the
                       as ‘Go back to bed!’ or ‘Looks like you’ve lost weight’. feeling that we would
                       The mirror would be just as accurate or inaccurate in itshave been better off
                       statements as the Magic 8 ball but possibly just as      by simply publishing
                       popular.                                                 an extra edition of the
                                                                                Innovations
463ChasBayfield                                                                 Catalogue than this
                                                                                book – and thereby
                                                                                cut out out the

8 July 2003  middleman.

                       Introduce standard labelling for food products that
                       change colour (probably always to green) when the
                       product reaches its sell-by date. Foodstuffs that do
                       actually change colour when out of date need only be
                       packed in clear containers.

                                Alex Hawkins

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