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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 from Thin Air Turn on a TV with your Ring and Other Amazing Feats - cover

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 from Thin Air Turn on a TV with your Ring and Other Amazing Feats

Cy Tymony

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

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Summary

The original, practical guide that offers readers “a chance to become real-life MacGyvers” with “sections on gimmicks, gadgets and survival techniques” (Publishers Weekly). Do you know 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 teaches you how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary just a few minutes. With more than 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
Available since: 07/16/2013.
Print length: 179 pages.

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