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5 Innovative Ideas to Make Your Old Gadgets Useful Again

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Bobby clarke
5 Innovative Ideas to Make Your Old Gadgets Useful Again

We all have lots of old gadgets like mobiles, tablets, digital cameras, laptops, etc. locked inside our drawers and cabinets. But there are many things that we can do to make them useful again or give them a new life. Keeping this in mind today, we are sharing with you five innovative ideas that you can use to make your old gadgets useful again. So, let’s get started.

Use Your Old Smartphone or Tablet as a Security Camera

The very first thing that you can do with your old smartphone or tablet is to use it as a security camera that will allow you to monitor and track activities that are going on inside of your home when you are not there or are out of town. Amazing, right? For doing this, you require a tripod and apps like Manything, Alfred, Make your old phone as Home Security Camera, AtHome Camera, etc. and you are all good to go.

 

 

Use Your Old Phone or Tablet as a Media Remote

You can also do with your old smartphone or tablet instead of throwing them away to use them as a media remote/hub. For example, you can use your iPad with your Apple TV to stream your favorite show or movie. Similarly, if you have a chromecast dongle, then you can use your Android smartphone or tablet with it to stream your favorite song from YouTube Music or your Spotify playlist.

Use Your Old Laptop as a Storage Device or Media Center

If you have recently bought a new laptop for yourself, then you can use your old laptop as a storage device and store your videos, music, pictures, files, etc. in it. This will not only help you save hard drive space on your new laptop, but it will also make your old laptop useful again. Besides this, you can also use your old laptop as a media center by installing and using apps like Kodi, Plex, etc. on it.

Use Your Old Digital Camera as a Webcam

If you have just bought a new digital camera for yourself, then you might be thinking of selling your old camera to recover some amount that you have spent on purchasing your new camera. But that might not be a wise thing to do when you can use it as a webcam for your laptop.

Yes, all the laptops come with built-in webcams, but these webcams are not of good quality, which means you can’t use them for your zoom calls or Skype calls. However, if we connect our digital camera to our laptop and use it as a webcam, we can quickly solve it.  To do this, you will require to install apps like Spark cam, EOS Webcam Utility, etc. on your computer. Once you do this, you can easily convert your digital camera into a webcam and use it for all your online meetings.

Use Your Old Phone or Tablet as an Ereader

If you have an old phone lying inside of your cabinet or drawer, then you can make it useful again by using it as an e-reader. To do this, you will require apps like the Kindle app, Kobo app, etc. Once you install these apps on your old phone, you can easily download your favorite eBook for reading and convert your old mobile/ tablet into an e-reader.

Conclusion

There you have it, guys, five innovative ideas that you can use to get the most out of your old devices or give them a new life. So do use these ideas to get the most out of your old devices. You won’t regret it.

Do you have some other innovative ideas that can make old devices like laptops, tablets, etc. useful again? If yes, then do share these ideas with us in the comments.

Source :-   https://dindependent.com/5-innovative-ideas-to-make-your-old-gadgets-useful-again/   

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