cheap tricks

Pipe up your smartphone volume

Using cheap materials, you can hear music through bone conduction

For less than $1

Sidewalk art that puts chalk to shame

No need to inhale if you learn how to blow smoke rings with a bottle

And a lemon, and some other stuff. But mostly pennies.

Shuffle data at twice the speed for one tenth the cost.

With cellular carriers changing their pricing, now is the time to start cutting data usage – and that exorbitant phone bill.

Try this update on a 1961 PopSci project: a cheap and stylish lamp base molded from a plastic bottle

Don’t blow a bundle on new ink cartridges -- top off the ones you’ve already got