Hasta La Gadget!

You know how there’s like seven shows on basic cable about so-called “hoarders”? These shows exist to mock and ridicule people who never throw anything away. But as it turns out, these people are geniuses and we’re all wasteful jerks. Everything can be repurposed! All you need is some imagination and a glue gun.

For example, you could throw a few hundred bucks at a brand new iPod dock. Or, you could also readily build one from spare parts you have in your garage. Probably with a lot more personality as well. We recently profiled the BoomCase, a stylish boombox made from refurbished luggage. And for an even more low-tech approach, one DIY-not-er was able to create an iPod-powered boombox using one a musical Hallmark card, a cereal box, and a smattering of other domestic debris. The whole thing can be put together in a few easy steps and a matter of hours.

Makes you think. What can you make from stuff you were going to throw away? Maybe you should walk on over to your garbage can right now. Do it, no one is looking. Now stare at it. Stare really hard. Breath it in. Smell that? That, my friend, is the smell of invention.

via instructables