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Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

By Bill Detwiler November 30, 2005, 9:36 PM PST on Twitter billdetwiler

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Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

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The grand-prize winner in Altoids’ Tin Million Uses competition was Jon Lennon of Ithaca, N.Y., who turned a Ginger Altoids tin into a theremin, a device that uses light to generate rnsound.

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Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

Burt van der Klute of Fayetteville, N.C., turned his Altoids tin into a Morse code reader.

Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

Marcy Merill, a teacher from Tokeland, Wash., used several Altoids tins to make a pinhole camera.

Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

Philip Haley impressed judges by turning an Altoids Ginger tin into a portable protective case for an MP3 player.

Photos: Curiously creative mint tins

Earlier this year, in an invention not directly related to the Tin Million Uses contest, MIT grad Limor Fried decided to build an MP3 player using an Altoids tin as the case.

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