I use the pencil to draw crircle, I handle a bag to put in some clothes, the umbrella to get dry, ... but have you ever thought what sould objects offer more diffeent than what that were designed for ? Don't even need to be a Mac Guyver some imagination, some bricolage tools and you'll go far, look at this site from swiss, where that guy have manged appropriate uses for inapproiate gadgets, for example a Tennis ball :

Cut like this :


Should be usesfull for ear protection while the noise happen !

The atelier offers 20 tricks of uncredible abuse of the gadgets that we encounter daily ignoring their real usesfull use :)
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