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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