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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 ... a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Feats | 
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| Author: Cy Tymony
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
Buy New: $4.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 9752
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0740738593
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3815
EAN: 9780740738593
ASIN: 0740738593
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 thingsand more than 40 other handy gadgets and gizmosin 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.Youll 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, youll 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Short on Everyday Things July 18, 2008
While the uses that are found in this book are plausible, most are minor and not really what is advertised. Most are everyday things, but you have to have a lot of non-everyday things to complete the project.
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, April 20, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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
Not as great as it sounds, but useful nonetheless March 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought it was going to have some extraordinary ways on how to make the gadgets using the household items, but the devices are not very practical or convenient. might be a good space filler in a science class, or ideas for scientific experiments, but nothing i see that could be used in actual situations
 This is a kid's book February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just be aware - nothing in this book would amaze anyone over the age of 10.
My favorite "project" - lash a piece of glass to a stick to make a "survival tool".
If you're old enough to have your own credit card to purchase this, you're too old for this book.
 loved it October 12, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
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