Comments on: Podcast: Overcoming the Mid-project Blues

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:23:37 +0000

- Crsush and glue together to make shiny beads
- Melt it
- Use as a blower – to clean your laptop
- Use as a prism (make rainbows)
- Suck onto something (make a vacuum)
- Dip it in soap and blow bubbles

By: Sebastiaan la Bastide

Sebastiaan la Bastide — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:39:58 +0000

- dip in ink
- draw in sand
- send back for refill
- use as low-tech/low-battery laser pointer
- wear behind ear
- give away to police officer/parking control
- use as reason to move to paperless office
- use to explain your wife why you had to buy that new PDA…

By: Galen

Galen — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:15:46 +0000

Good Exercise!!
I can only add two more:
* Toothpick Dispenser
* Wire Straightener

By: Juuso Lehtinen

Juuso Lehtinen — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:52:22 +0000

-PDA stylus
-Carving tool
-Pointer for blackboard presentations
-Drumming tool
-Scratch your back with it

By: Gustavo Arizpe

Gustavo Arizpe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:56:10 +0000

I came up with these:
perfume container
single flower preserver-holder.
ultracool minimalist sculpture
caligraphy pen
stylus

By: Frank Walsh

Frank Walsh — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:49:56 +0000

In one minute i came up with the following:
-Straw
-Snorkle
-Tracheotomy tube
-Toy rocket (launch the end from the spring)
-Awl/hole punch
-Stylus for PDA
-Small pill container

By: Geoffrey Mayne

Geoffrey Mayne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:00:14 +0000

* add lenses – telescope
* why not refill the pen?
* small rolling pin
* toy for small child (better than my cell phone)
* soil tester

By: Ryan Lee

Ryan Lee — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:44:56 +0000

-spit wad shooter
-stamping perfect circles
-rolling paper
-paperclip
-carve name into a tree
-poke holes
-muscle massager
-finger strengthening with the spring

By: Mary Branscombe

Mary Branscombe — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:46:56 +0000

-Stylus for passive screen
-hair stick
-dart blowpipe
-emergency phlebotomy
-pipette

By: Phil McKinney

Phil McKinney — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:28:43 +0000

Possible uses for a pen with no ink ….
* straw
* whistle
* drink stirrer
* hole puncher
* weapon
How many more can you come up with?? Add your list to the comments section ….