As an entertaining Friday afternoon aside to our discussion earlier this week about how to recover data from a dying hard disk, it turns out there's plenty of uses left for the ones that have finally stopped pining for the fjords.
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With this tutorial from HacknMod, you can turn your hard disk into a grinder or sander.
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You can make a windchime and a keychain out of the parts inside the hard disk. Classy!
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You can turn it into a speaker.
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Years ago, my dad used to make clocks out of the huge 14-inch disk platters he used in old HP 3000 minicomputers. Turns out you can do this with the smaller drives of today, too.
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Finally, if you acquire enough expired hard disks, you can make a huge domino set out of them.
JC at Mac Geekery has come across a potential solution to the iPod hard drive's 'click of death' that many owners will likely experience at some point or another (After all it's a hard drive and you walk/run/snowboard around with it all day. It has to throw in the towel some day).
