Techno punks / The treasure chest of technological salvage

For everyone's sake, let the techno punk keep his drawer full of apparently useless parts and appliances. You never know when something in there may come in handy.

| 13:32 28.08.12 |

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Tell me, did you see the charger for my ancient Nokia? You know the small phone with the huge antenna that doesn't receive text messages or surf the Web?

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Techno punks / The treasure chest of technological salvage

For everyone's sake, let the techno punk keep his drawer full of apparently useless parts and appliances. You never know when something in there may come in handy.

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