Wonderful Altoids Hacks - Neatorama

Oobject rounded up some of the best Altoids tin hacks from around the Web. From cameras to flashlights to headphone amps, nothing is safe from the DIY community!

The almighty Altoids tin has been torn apart, beat to death and drilled upon all in the name of science. DIY enthusiasts can attest to the solid build of the tin and how delicious the mints were that formerly resided in it. This list is a collection of some of the finest hackery around that incorporates an Altoids tin.

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@Video Game Dork

'Hack' in the contemporary vernacular, in the most general sense, simply means 'repurpose".

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These really aren't 'hacks'. They are more like engineering projects using a specific material. A metal box simply isn't high-tech enough to be hacked.

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I use altoids cans or camel snus cans to hold my weed lol

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Mine is not an Altoids can but I have a Penguin Peppermint headphone Amp Can. It works wonders for my Sony MDR-V6 headphones.

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My altoids hack is quite simple.

I use the tin it to carry tic tacs.

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Is it even worth discussing? I'm assuming you'd need medical insurance for this to matter to most people...

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The real question is what do they have to say?

"Still, he shies away from asking patients the toughest question of all — whether they wish life support to be ended — saying that it is too early to think about such applications."

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As I understand it; locked-in syndrome is caused by a lesion of the pons. The pons doesn't have anything to do with consciousness or cognition except in acting as a bridge for sensory feedback. A person with a lesion of the pons cannot initiate motor activity or receive feedback from their extremities and trunk because the signal is severed above the brain-stem but below the cerebral cortices and limbic system. Consciousness is localizable to activity of the cortico-thalamic complex which doesn't involve the pons. The pons is a relay station between parts of the brain and the body. A person with locked-in syndrome can be fully rational and lucid while not being able to communicate at all. I would be asking is there any evidence that they are not? Are there any additional lesions affecting other brain areas associated with consciousness and cognition?

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why can't we do for people the same thing that is considered humane to do for animals? or at least not 'force' life on them with tubes and respirators.

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