I either sell mine when the new one arrives (or before to afford the new one haha) or pass them on to 'less fortunate' family members (read: my little sister).
But I've seen people give very cool uses to old stuff, like using it for halloween costumes (camera on the back sends image to phone screen on the front and viceversa), car dashboards with tablets, good WiFi-only entertainment for the little ones, glorified music players, PC remotes (or TV remotes if you have an IR Blaster), connected door cameras/video peepholes, intercom if you have enough devices for every room (either via audio, video, or texts via WiFi), whiteboards for notes on the fridge, etc. Man, now I kinda wish I had some old ones lying around haha.
To your point, though, most of these cool things I've seen (save the Halloween stuff and sometimes the music player, even that some just keep them next to their stereos) do keep the devices connected to a charger.
10-22-2015 05:20 PM
