Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posts: 195

There have been a few threads concerning people breaking thier Visors, so here's just a few thoughts about what to do with the dead ones until you get the replacements:

Use it as an attractive paperweight.

Its flat shape and light build means it would probably skip at least 8 times across a smooth pond or lake.

Use the grooves on the side grips to comb your desktop zen garden.

Christmas tree ornament.

Play percussion in a Latin band - rub the stylus across the grooves on the sides of the Visor.

Use it to measure the height of buildings. Drop it off of the top, time how long it takes to hit the ground, and use the 9.86 m/sec2 gravitational acceleration constant to calculate the height.

Any other ideas?

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Beaverton, OR USA
Posts: 87

Pull it out in boring meetings and pretend you're playing Astroids to tick off your boss...

Oh, wait -- I can do that for real right now.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Gainesville, FL USA
Posts: 112

1. Microwave it.

2. Tie it to the cat's collar and light it on fire. (Just kidding, already!)

3. Fill it with catnip and give it to the cat. (is that better?)

4. Rub hamburger on it & give it to the dog.

5. Skip it across a lagoon like the pager in the Corona beer TV commercial.

6. Take it scuba diving.

7. Take the screen out & use it for a picture frame.

8. If it's death caused you problems and you want revenge, put honey on it and leave it on an anthill.

9. Wait until they're available in stores, then buy an identical one at a store you hate and return the one that "doesn't work."

10. Shoot it.

11. Cut the female end off of an extension cord. Solder 5d nails to the exposed wires. USe the nails to probe the Visor, then plug it in.

12. After you do #11, toss it into the bathtub.

13. Pretend it's a cell phone and talk into it to look important.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Columbia, MO, USA
Posts: 68

Sell it to a WinCE user as an upgrade...

LarryD

Registered: Nov 1999
Location:
Posts: 70

In response to axeman,

If you go through suggestions #11 and/or 12, please be sure to UNPLUG the "probes" before continuing with #13 -- thanks.

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William

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posts: 195

Learn to balance it on your head while you walk, so you can get that oh-so-graceful walk down.

Use it to sheild your eyes from the sun. It is a visor, after all.

Take the guts out, and cut a piece of glass to fit where the screen was. Make it watertight, and you've got your own portable Sea Monkey aquarium.

Use it as a PostIt Notes despensor.

Whip it out at 11:59 pm on the 31st at a big Y2K party. Pretend you're going to use it like you always do, but act shocked and horror stricken when it won't come on. Shout "NO!!! It's THE Y2K BUG!!!" Have an accomplice turn the lights out when he hears you. Spread mass panic.

Give it to Al Gore so he can record his agenda for his presidential term.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Posts: 56

or, give it to Al Gore and convice him that he invented it.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Modesto, CA USA
Posts: 599

or give it to Al Gore and watch him ban it because:
It's environmentally unfriendly. (or at least he'll claim it to be).

You can play games on that are viewed as aggressive...Asteroids using a laser to blast asteroids.

He'll be able to use Brainforest to plan his career turns when he's not elected as President.

He can paint a white concentric circles on a Graphite Visor and use it for target practice.....naugh that'll never happen he's for more gun control.

or you can give it to Hillary Clinton where she can:

Use it to keep track of all of Bill's affair mates....is 8MB enough memory for that?

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

Collect them and us them as coasters at a party (you could go with one color, or mix and match!)
Tie some fishing string to it and go to Manhatten and troll for Yuppies (a switch on the old dollar pull)
Gut it and use the hollow case to hold change on your night stand. (or as an alternative use with hard cover to make into cigarette case.)
Walk up to someone you know and tell them about your exciting new PDA, when they ask to see it start to hand it to them, but make sure to fumble and drop it (after they touch it!), cry and moan while tearing at your hair when it won't start. Mumble inchorently about data lost forever. (Works best near stairs)

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posts: 195

RGMOOSE - it wouldn't work for Hillary. This is what to do with a DEAD Visor. That's why it's great for recording Gore's agenda for when he gets elected - it's not gonna happen.

Now, I guess Hillary could physically write the names of all of Bill's girlfriends on it, but I think she'd run out of space real quick.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

sell it on EBay.

I'm sure there are some desperate people out there that want ANY Visor for the holidays!