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So I had another brilliant idea recently. It hit me while we were at a children’s party. You know, one of those colorful places with the loud video games, the ball pit, the miles of crawling tubes and rubberized rooms.


When you walk into the place an indifferent teenager puts a stamp on your hand and the hand of your children without even looking at your faces. This is done so that later in the day when you leave they will presumably check that you and your child both have the same stamp. As an added security measure, the ink that is used is invisible to the naked eye. It can only be seen if you hold your hand up to one of those funky black lights.

So now here is where my idea was comes in. They have funky black lights at bars, nightclubs and wild Rave parties. Have you ever seen heard of these Rave parties? They’re filled with underage kids. If your kids have been to these, the good part is that there is very usually very little drinking going on. The bad news is that instead, these kids are stoned on exotic drugs like Ecstasy and Special K. They wear cloths to pick up the black lights, and many of the kids are covered with tattoos and body piercing. They get all whacked-out and wave light sticks in the air. I think my idea has a strong target market there.

At this point hopefully you’re thinking, “Okay Bill, you’ve strung me along far enough – what’s your idea?” Well here it is. We take that invisible ink and start making tattoos out of it.

That’s right, permanent tattoos or temporary tattoos that can only be seen under the black lights! Here is the thing. Now anyone can get a tattoo, anywhere and since it is invisible, no one will ever know you have it unless you want them to know. Sure, all of your friends at the bar, or at the rave will think your new tattoo is cool, but your boss and coworkers never even have to know that it exists as long as they don’t install black lights in the office.

You could have a skull and crossbones tattoo on your face and they wouldn’t know! Its brilliant! And if later in life you ever regret getting a tattoo, just turn off the light. There is no down side to this one.

And of course this idea spawned another. Have you ever seen those toys that change colors when you wet them? They have a coating of a special chemical that turns different colors at different temperatures. My son has toy cars that are red, but when you dip them in warm water they turn yellow.

Again this technology should be used for tattoos! Imagine a tattoo that only appears when you are cold. It could be on your arm and appears when your arm is cooler than 98 degrees – like when you are swimming. Olympic swimmers could have numbers tattooed on their backs so that you can keep track of them when they are in the water.

Or maybe it only appears when you are warm – like when you exercise. You could have “No Pain, No Gain” tattooed on your arm so that when you’re working up a sweat, people know that you are serious about it. I’m telling you this idea is a winner.

We could even get fancy and have them turn different colors based on subtle skin temperature changes so that they work just like mood rings. Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk into your bosses office and know by a glance to his forehead whether she was is a good mood or a bad mood.

“Better stay away from the boss, the old mood tattoo turned crimson”. “Hey Jimmy, when your mom finds out that you broke Mr. Farrells window her mood tattoo is gonna go black!”
“Baby I’m into you and your mood tattoo just turned purple, so I know you are into me…”

I’m telling you this idea is a million dollar score. Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve. We could have people wearing it on their head!

Billo
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