Awaken the tinkerer in you: Bringing new life to old appliances

The worst thing you can do with a broken device is letting it gather dust in a drawer. Especially since there's often a good chance they can still be repaired. — Photo: Florian Schuh/dpa

DRESDEN: The worst thing you can do with a broken device is letting it gather dust in a drawer. Especially since there's often a good chance it can still be repaired.

In a storage room in the German city of Dresden, boxes bursting with old mobile phones, radios, printers and televisions are piled up to the ceiling. But the devices are not bound for the scrapheap. They are waiting to be repaired and put back into service.