Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Calculator into a Metal Detector, Carry a Survival Kit in a Shoestring, Make a Gas Mask with a Balloon, ... a James Bond Spy Jacket with Everyday Thing

Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Calculator into a Metal Detector, Carry a Survival Kit in a Shoestring, Make a Gas Mask with a Balloon, ... a James Bond Spy Jacket with Everyday Thing Features

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Did you know that your standard issue of Sports Illustrated magazine can be turned into over 20 useful gadgets? In author Cy Tymony's Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things, you'll learn how an average magazine can become many extraordinary gadgets such as a compass, hearing aid, magnifier, peashooter, and bottle opener.

Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things covers 40 new educational and unique projects that anybody can successfully complete with simple household items. The book includes a list of necessary materials, detailed sketches, and step-by-step instructions for each gadget and gizmo. Among the sneaky schemes are:

" Creating a electroscope out of a glass jar

" Turning a drinking cup into a speaker

" Using an AM radio as a metal detector

" Making a spy gadget jacket with over 20 individual sneaky uses ranging from a siren and

whistle to a walkie-talkie and voice recorder

These days, "be prepared" applies to more than just the Boy Scouts. Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things provides loads of practical ideas, science projects, and captivating solutions for dealing with life's unexpected challenges. Great fun for the curious, inventive, and creative of all ages.

What Customers Say About Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Calculator into a Metal Detector, Carry a Survival Kit in a Shoestring, Make a Gas Mask with a Balloon, ... a James Bond Spy Jacket with Everyday Thing:

This review is for all three books in this series. The first note is they are clearly written for the 13 year old and under crowd. For them, it should stimulate the creative scientific gene in them, and open their imaginations to harmless scientific experimentation. So if there is a young burgeonoing, tinkering youngster in your life, these books could be the spark to spur them into some educational fun.

This book is so stupid and you'll never ever ever use anything in it. What a joke. I wish I had read the other reviews before I wasted the 4 bucks I spent on it. Live and learn I guess.

These books have gotten better and better. Nothing to sit down and read in front of the fire on a cold evening, but fun to pick up and flip through every now and again.

The coolest thing in this book was that dollar bills have metal threads and are slightly magnetic. Now you can skip the entire book.

I'm not sure why some readers don't seem to understand that Cy Tymony obviously wrote this book series for kids. This title, like that of Tymony's first book, is also a dead giveaway.If this book were published by Brown Paper School, like The Book of Think: Or, How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size, it would also have five stars from all customer reviewers. But otherwise, it too deserves 5 stars.Kids get a big kick out of making something from nothing. I'll repeat, if you've got a Ph.D. In this age when most electronic gadgets hail from China, it's nice to find an author suggesting constructive toys for curious kids. in physics, don't buy it. Boys, most likely, under the age of 10 or 11.An audience of that age will find this book quite interesting, like its prequel. All right, so Tymony should have labeled the book "for kids" for the dim witted among us.

And if you considered the idea, do tell us, how'd you get that Ph.D., again.The point of this book is to set kids along a discovery path---to find capabilities in everyday objects they might not otherwise have recognized, to think outside the box.And while not all the suggestions here provide the least bit of interest to an adult, I don't get why anyone would have bought this book expecting to reap a science degree from it. For Pete's sake. Once upon a time, a child could be happy with an old Quaker Oats box as a drum. It teaches them how to look at and listen to the world around them, even if the stuff they make from this book is otherwise "useless."