Don't discard that old smartphone so quick! It can be your new security system!

The way we treat old smartphones is akin to how we treat old jewelry. Once we’ve moved on to newer, shinier options, we tend to hang on to the old. They gather dust in drawers and boxes marked “save.” We will probably never use them again, yet we have a sense that they’re too valuable to junk. There are precious metals in both, right?

You could recoup some fraction of your old smartphone’s cost by trading it in. Or you could repurpose it — deploying its still-functional microphone and camera as a baby monitor, home speaker, or security camera.

Thanks to Lauren Thomas of Reviews.com.  Click here for a great article on how you can repurpose your old smartphone into a new security camera system.