This week we’re taking a look at how to make your own stylus, turning your old CDs or DVDs into a game, and digging up Kindle screensavers on Flickr.

diy导电触摸屏触针

Jules用以下DIY技巧写下：

I’ve been messing around with creating my own DIY stylus for my tablet over the last couple weeks. While there are all kinds of specific builds you can find online, it was this video that got me started in terms of thinking about the capacitive abilities of items around my office. DIY-4-Life!

DIY-4-Life嗯？听起来像是在做t恤的主意。谢谢分享！

回收你的旧CD来取乐

比尔在信中提到一个小建议，尽管他承认自己缺乏实用性，但很注重乐趣：

During an audit at work we discovered a veritable warehouse of old CDS and DVDS that, at some point in the dim technological past, my company had been archiving data on to have hard copies on hand. Don’t ask me why this was every a standard practice as oppose to off-site and disk-based backup. We’re in the process of finding a sane and economical way to dispose of our disc hoard, but in the mean time we’ve been having a lot of fun around the office coming up with ways to put all these discs to good use. So far the most fun came to us courtesy of an internet search that yielded this video showing two guys recycling a bunch of discs into an “air” hockey table. There’s no actual air pushing out or anything but the slick surface of the discs and the gaps in between them actually make for a pretty fast moving disc. We turned the entire table in the conference room into a big CD “air” hockey table. Even if we never find a data disposal specialist that will take all these discs we’ll slowly destroy them ourselves!

我们从来没有像现在这样失望过，因为没有一些老化的旧光盘摆在它周围看起来很有趣！

在flickr上查找kindle屏幕保护程序

Brian写了以下以Kindle为中心的提示：

I loved your tutorial on jailbreaking your Kindle to add screensavers. I’ve since been on the hunt for t*** of new ones. In the course of searching I found that you could use third-party tools to effectively mine Flickr for backgrounds. It’s just one more technique to add to the ones listed in your guide!

谢谢布莱恩，我们一直在寻找新的东西！

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