I need to get some patents.  Tell me these aren't BRILLIANT!

1.  an insurance card with a magnetic strip on it that contains all of your personal information, medical history, and prescriptions.  So when you go to a new dr, you don't have to spend 2 hours filling out the fifty thousand pages of new patient paperwork.

2.  Digital Parking Meters - I'd like to be able to CALL the parking meter from my mobile and add money to it over the phone.  This is the digital age - they need to step it up in the parking meter department.  Having to go outside every 2 hours to put NICKELS and DIMES in the meter doesn't fit into my schedule.  (Literally nickels and dimes, because it doesn't take quarters!)  I would also like for it to call me when it's about to expire.  This week I got a $5 parking ticket for FIVE minutes.  I must have just missed the lady that wrote me the ticket.  She wrote the ticket at 10:05 and i know the meter expired at 10:00.

3.  I would like to see biometrics replace plastic and paper money.  At the store, instead of swiping my card, I'd like to have my finger print scanned and then on the little machine, i'd like for a list of my accounts to show up with the current balance, allowing me to select which one I want to use as my method of payment.  You could set up accounts for your kids and give them spending limits, store retrictions (like they can't buy certain stuff or buy from certain places.)  In my opinion, this is a fantastic idea. 

I can honestly see all of these ideas coming to fruition in the future, too bad I don't know anything about technology to patent this and make a bagillion dollars from it!