I’m sitting at a desk with an iPod from before color screens, a Zune first generation, an old Palm Handspring, a Palm Tungsten E, and a few other gadgets of yesteryear. As the Frugal Geek, it seems only fair that I attempt to find a way to recycle old tech short of donating it all to my local Goodwill. I donate a lot of my old equipment, though I’m interested in how the community recycles their devices for their own purposes. My question to the community at large is, what do you do with your old tech?

One suggestion I can offer for the Tungsten E is that it makes a great palm-size reader. The Sony reader is a great invention and has a useful purpose of its own, though with the Palm™ reader, the Tungsten E shines as a useful reading device. Unfortunately, neither the iPod Classic nor my Blackjack have or would have that ability to any degree of usefulness.

Do you have any handy tips or tricks to make that old iPod worth keeping charged? Have you hacked any of the old devices and made them useful again? Do you still use old Palm devices, and if so, what for?

Please leave a comment below with your handy tip, trick, or suggestion.

Matt of MattRyan.TV

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