Cassette wallet

Cassette wallet for your classic nostalgia.

Book chandelier

Carve the sides of books to make space for light...

...thread and hang them..

...you have a book chandelier.

Rope basket

A fruit basket made of rope for aesthetics and energy saving.

Ballroom

There's a ball tonight in my kitchen. ;)

Door as table top

Door with broken hinges recycled as table top.

Candle rack

Carve old wooden arm rests to use as candle racks.

Bed base as peg stand

Steel bed mesh being used as a peg hook-in stand and hanger stand.

Barrel chairs

Old barrels converted to chairs.

Balti lamp

Use an old bucket as a bulb holder / lamp.

Bulb testing machine turned bar

1920s bulb testing machine recycled as a mini-bar.

Wooden scooter

A Red Indian rides a frugal wooden scooter down a slope (could have been powered, but seems like he's staying "green").

Road rail juggaar

Broken / missing road side railing filed by un-cemented stone walls.

Snow breaking walker

Seems to be derived from a snow breaker ship.

Reading on a cow

Multitasking much?

Simple but effective and quick

A bit more literal in the "simplicity" sense of juggaar... labours hang their fellow worker upside down into a manhole as he goes in for a quick look.

Juggaar raft used for regular crossing of Indus river

Rigged up juggaar rafts are often used to regularly cross the Indus river by villagers instead of boats to save on costs.

Rigged slide ride

Rigged up slide ride from salvaged car parts.

Grenade watch

Pocket watch with grenade like design.

Tree through rock

Geenay k liay sahara kafi hay...

Hello #Self

I once posted my secret recipe of getting my email notifications on sms in Pakistan (and most other countries) using any cell phone for free. This time I'm trying something in reverse. I regularly use followupthen to setup email reminders right from my email inbox that bounce back to my inbox at the time of my choice... this is exceedingly convenient for people like me always having the inbox open while using the PC. I can keep track of all emails via sms, log in whenever I get an important email and send myself reminders (which I also get on sms since they bounce back to me on email and hence tweet forwarded to sms).

Next up was setting up notes to self via sms while I was on the move and as it can be seen, my (and probably your) inbox can be taken as a communication hub turned personal assistant. A few years ago, I used to get this done by the Telenor's delay sms (which later stopped working and, eventually, I ported away from the service due to poor network). Now I thought of going for a sure way and reversing the Gmail to SMS hack seemed a great idea. All I had to do to upgrade the Gmail to SMS hack was to create an exception in my gmail to avoid forwarding any emails matching ifttt.com, in addition to the prior exception for facebookmail.com, to the bot and hence avoiding a "loop forever" (if you were not using this before, you don't have to worry about it).

The steps for setting up hack are simple:

1. Create and connect your twitter bot to ifttt if you haven't already done it or if you are not using the Gmail to SMS recipe.
2. Create a recipe in ifttt to forward tweets with the hashtag #self to your email.
3. Connect your Pakistani cell number with sendsms.pk (register if you don't have an account).
4. Connect your twitter bot (having protected tweets) with their app from the twitter tab in sendsms.pk menu.
5. Send "tw Hello #Self" from your registered cell number to sendsms.pk's number (0331-4233541 << you see this is just a regular number and you can send free SMS to it from your regular bundles) and it will be emailed to you as a note to self via SMS (For noobs: any messages containing #self will be forwarded to your email).

Note: If you are using Gmail to SMS recipe, you will also get an sms confirmation of your reminder right away as the bot tweets your SMS. This is due to following the bot with SMS notifications for tweets with your original account.

Elegant hack to keep the outer side of the tire clean

A very elegant life hack to keep the white outer side of the tire clean... attach a rubber strap to the mud guard that brushes against the tire and wipes it clean as it rotates.

Jaggery (gur) prepration at Peshawar

Workers prepare gur, a frugal sweet, at Peshawar

Transporting pipes on bike

Just in case they are too heavy or bulky for the shoulders, you can always sit on them.

Digging turtle caught on camera

Photographer clicks a turtle as it digs through sand.

You seem transparent, but I can see you are plotting something in the background

Camouflaged eel - not transparent but appears transparent, on a graph plotting paper.

(Cat + (Cat)^box)^box

Pretty much self explanatory cat logic.

Cube laser keyboard

Cube laser keyboards allows you to type on a virtual keyboard without carrying a full sized keyboard. Possibly a good way for convergence devices.

Casio angry birds

Angry bird demo on a Casio graphical calculator... probably they need to actually develop one that works for that as well for when you don't understand maths?

Overloaded plastic

Since it doesn't weigh much, let's overload it 3 times the capacity.... and make it work.

Hand through eye

A hand keeping an eye open from the inside...

Cycle Cart

Something between a bicycle rickshaw and a cart.

Channa stand

Channa stand and corn stand... the most popular ad hoc shops and street hawkers in South Asia.

Carpet blanket

When your friend forgets to give you a blanket!

Backup power juggaar

We've got the Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) all over Pakistan to counter the rolling blackouts (load shedding), but this one seems to kind of... over kill.

Bike tractor

A bike converted to work as a tractor.

Ad hoc shop

An ad hoc shop in South Asia shows the penetration of juggaar culture in the population.

Mailbox juggaar

You can use your CPU as a BBQ rig, flower pot, and now as a physical mailbox. See also two other rigged up mailbox for ideas ;)

iPod converted to a cigarette case

iPod converted to a sneaky cigarette case.

Foxy room cooler

If the bus and the rickshaw can have it, the foxy can have a traditional room cooler as well.

Rope car wiper

When the car wipers stop working, you can go for a rope operated rig for a quick fix.

Cart tow

Pillion rider holds a cart to tow it along.

Live by the crane

A warm bath in the crane hand.

Tool keychain

A swiss-army knife like tool key chain that holds the key as well as incorporates an array of tools that may come in handy.