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Produce chocolates that look like computer keyboard     Editor’s note:
                       keys. This geek food could be packaged in a box that    Which leads us to
                       looks very much like a laptop. Using an index inside thewonder if an online
                       lid, the alphanumeric character printed on each key     guide to all known
                       could indicate which flavours were which far more       chocolate shapes and
                       accurately than the shape outline system currently      centres might not be
                                                                               such a crazy scheme
151favoured.                                                                   in itself. Or better still,
                                                                               launch a company
                                                                               which invites the

Tristan Spill         confused members of
27 February 2001      the public to send in
                      rogue chocolates for

                                                                               the staff to take a bite,

                                                                               come to a conclusion

                      and send the
                      remainder back with a
                      written report.
                       Build an arm-wrestling machine that could be attached
                       to a tabletop and linked to the Internet via a computer.
                       Players could challenge the machine on a range of
                       settings but also wrestle anyone else in the world with
                       the same machine. In two-player mode, the motorised
                       arm would flex to measure one user’s strength, and then

152map their force against the other competitor and
respond accordingly.

Mary Slim
1 March 2001
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