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While everyone enjoys getting a new phone or camera, it can be hard to know what to do with outgoing tech. Simply throwing it away seems a terrible waste, and sentimental types like me don't fare much better—my preference is to hoard my old phones in a shoebox under my bed, along with a tangle of wires that are almost certainly obsolete. Occasionally I'll rifle through the collection on the off chance that I can retrofit an adaptor to my current setup. This rarely succeeds, but I enjoy reminiscing over clunky handsets, ancient text messages, and Snake. There are better ways to give old phones, laptops, and cameras a new life, however. You might be surprised by how many ways you can repurpose a piece of hardware, even if it has become too slow to fulfill its original function. David Nield shares some of his favorite ways to repurpose your old gadgets and avoid tossing them in the trash (or that shoebox!). | |
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