We took down the deer netting around the garden yesterday, which involves pulling a zillion staples out of the wood posts. I put some salvaged hard-drive head motor magnets to good use: one magnet inside my jacket sleeve to hold the other magnet in place, then just drop staples near them.
Shazam… no staples in the ground!
You can actually buy such things, with cute Velcro straps and all, but why? You’ve been saving those magnets for years: put ’em to use!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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Seems like there is no end to what can be done with the guts of old hard drives. What’s going to happen when the computing world totally converts to solid state drives!