Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, Extract Water and Electricity … a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Feats
Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 4:37 am
- ISBN13: 9780740738593
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Do you know how to make something that can tell whether the $20 bill in your wallet is a fake? Or how to generate battery power with simple household items? Or how to create your own home security system? Science-savvy author cy Tymony does. And now you can learn how to create these things – and more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmos – in Sneaky Uses For Everyday Things. More than a simple do-it-yourself guide, this quirky collection is a valuable resource for transforming ordinary objects into the extraordinary. With over 80 solutions and bonus applications at your disposal, you will be ready for almost any situation. Included are survival, security, self-defense, and silly applications that are just plain fun. You’ll be seen as a superhero as you amaze your friends by: Transforming a simple FM radio into a device that enables you to eavesdrop on tower-to-air conversations; Creating your own personalized electronic greeting cards; Making a compact fire extinguisher from items typically found in a kitchen pantry; Thwarting intruders with a single rubber band. By using run-of-the-mill household items and the easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams within, you’ll be able to complete most projects in just a few minutes. Whether you use Sneaky Uses For Everyday Things as a practical tool to build useful devices, a fun little fantasy escape, or as a trivia guide to impress friends and family, this book is sure to be a reference favorite for years to come.
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, Extract Water and Electricity … a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Feats
Rating: 2 / 5
This is worth reading,and if you pick up a few tricks, your all the better off.I find this to be appropriate for the young adult reader who has the attention span of a fly.Interesting enough to keep them reading.
Rating: 5 / 5
an intesting book on home made things. I like most dissign exept the one that trips a camra. If i was a burgler i would take the camra. survival sution rives the boy scout book it sulf. i was and still is a very happy with book and plan to buy the whole sires.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book to be useless and lacking in creativity. I think I’m actually dumber for reading the section on how to connect things. It says to twist wires together or tape things together. I hate the fact that my first review is negative, but I felt compelled to write because I don’t want others to be as disappointed as I was.
Rating: 1 / 5
I personally thought it was okay but some of these things aren’t everyday things. I would not recommend this book if you are a MacGyver fan (which I faithfully am) because you don’t just find a X-10 Universal Powerflash Interface lying around in any ordinary house.
(P.S. the battery trick made out of coins was pretty cool but the drawings look like they’re from a 3-year old.)
Rating: 3 / 5