20 Ways To 'Recycle' Your Obsolete IPad 2

In box you haven't heard, Apple expelled a new iPad today, now digest any inscription other than this shiny, Retina manifestation spectacle obsolete.

We've got a couple of iPad 2′s fibbing around, but honestly we're only as well ashamed to be seen using them now that you have colleagues running around with the new iPad. That got us considering about how you can repurpose your out of date inscription if you haven't already sole it for parts.

In no specific order, you can:

Load up a YouTube video of a cat and give it to your dog as a munch toy. – News Editor Kevin Poulsen

Play frisbee in the dark. – Michael Salvador, prolongation staff

File off the "2″ and sell it to an gullible "lamestream media" exec. – Wired.com Editor in Chief Evan Hansen

Give it to Beer Robot . He will recollect you did when he achieves World Domination (which will positively be more tough with only the initial iPad he has now). – Wired Science Senior Editor Betsy Mason

Use it as a slicing house . – Poulsen

Did I speak of the coaster… – New York Bureau Chief John C. Abell

An interactive permit image to uncover your stream thoroughfare fury levels, gas, speed, stream song playing, and intoxication levels – Salvador

Send it to Mike Daisey so he obviously knows what an iPad looks like. – Threat Level Editor Ryan Singel

Turn it in to the face for an unconstrained robot. – Gadget Lab Staff Writer Christina Bonnington

Tell your grandma you got her an iPhone for seniors. – Wired Enterprise Staff Writer Caleb Garling

Attach a sequence and turn neo-Flava Flav with a digital timepiece app. – Salvador

Give it to your IT guys and inquire them to simply open it up and ascent it to a new iPad. – Wired Systems Support Analyst Josh Strom

Send it wrapped as a present to the workers at Foxconn. – Director of Editorial Development Shoshana Berger

Use it as a Conan leather belt bend to uncover your ultimate wall posts on Facebook and Twitter. Social networking for your waist! – Salvador

Turn it off, cling to it in the showering and use it as the world's many contemplative shred mirror. – Poulsen

Get a block magnifying potion to casing the shade and fake it is Retina display. – Singel

Permanent Apple TV remote control. – Bonnington

Keep using you first-generation iPad and have it both ways: You have an iPad but you can moreover snarl at the fanboys backing up is to glossy new one. – Abell

Lop off a couple of inches, bucket a lower grade OS, and fake you're Jeff Bezos. – Wired Enterprise Senior Editor Cade Metz

Attach iPad 2 to the headrest of an unconstrained automobile motorist chair with someone napping displayed on screen. – Salvador

Obviously a few of these "uses" are a bit more pragmatic than others - and really, a few could be officious dangerous. So please, use your most appropriate visualisation when it comes to dethroning your aged coaster, I meant iPad.