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The Simplest & Efficient iPhone Stand We've Seen

If you are looking for a simple and efficient way of having your iPhone/iPod stand in front of you without spending any money, look no further, because this hack is just pure genius. ...

Sonic Fabric Shirt Ties Made from Old Cassette Tapes

These ties might look ordinary. But within the weave is a blend of 50 percent colored thread and 50 percent actual recorded audio cassette tape. And get this: You can play the ties with a DIY sonic ...

Digital Measuring Tape Helps With DIY Projects

Incorrect measurements are always the glitch in our own DIY construction projects. We always "measure twice, cut once," but things can still go horribly wrong. Here's a little extra safety net when yo...

Dim Too-Bright Standby LEDs with Lithographer's tape

We're not fans of standby lights. Sure, they're electricity vampires, but the worst thing is how annoyingly bright they can be when you're trying to get to sleep in pure darkness. Here's a way to dro...

Colored Tape to Label Cords is an Easy Fix

Sometimes the easiest solutions are the hardest to come up with. Case in point: Using color-coded tape to label our most-used plugged-in cords. A brilliant, low-impact, no-brainer idea that we've neve...

Beats on Tape: iPod Cases Get Green(er)

Apparently we're not the only ones who love the idea of reusing old cassette tapes. Here, Canadian Contexture Design of Vancouver demonstrates that retro can still fire the fuel of "greenovation," wit...

Cassette Tape Turned Tape Dispenser

We've seen a resurgence of re-purposing the design of old, outdated technology into new and still useful things. In fact cassette tapes—you know the plastic case with magnetic tape inside that p...

Make a Jacobs Ladder Toy from Old Cassette Tapes

You've probably repurchased any songs you used to jam out to on those old-school cassette tapes and are now storing your classic tunes as MP3 files on your computer. Maybe you've even done Mother Eart...

Four Ways to Drop Your Old VHS Tapes

If you're already living in a home without a VHS tape in sight, congratulations. Some others, we know, have a harder time purging old technology. If you're sentimentally hanging on to your tapes, why ...

Green Idea The Cassette Tape Closet: A Great Way To Recycle Old Media

What do you do with all of your old cassette tapes? Throw them out, recycle them or reuse them? There are multiple ways of doing either though, and most of the time, old cassette tapes just get tosse...

Look! Zipper Scotch Tape Fastens Everything You Can Get Your Hands On

With the holidays just around the corner, we're sure plenty of you will opt to ship presents rather than shipping yourselves to family and friends via a pricey airline (newsflash: we've heard Jetblue...

Cassette Tape USB Hub: It's Not An Old Mixtape

This 4-port USB hub looks exactly like an old school tape, but if you try and play it in a Walkman, you'll damage it for sure. There's nothing sweeter than having new tech look like old tech. The cass...

Digital Message Tape Makes Moving Fun

It's that time of year in this college town I call home, and I'm in the thick of moving. If I never see another cardboard box, it will be too soon. If I had known about this (not so) Digital Message T...