Already #Sugru'ed up the waterproof pouch I got today for my iPhone so I don't feel so digitally naked the next time I'm at the beach.

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The idea was to reinforce where the lanyard connects to the pouch. I didn't spend a lot to buy this thing and the plastic holes looked a little flimsy to me. So I reinforced them first with tiny strips of duct tape and then smooshed in some Sugru around and through the holes, just to give it even more reinforcement. I've used this technique before and it seems to do the job.

The carabiner was added so I could attached a strap that will go around my torso to give the pouch horizontal stabilization for when I take it on a water rides. Specifically, my goal is to shoot 120fps footage with my iPhone 5s on the Aqua Duck ride aboard the Disney Fantasy cruise ship. It doesn't knock you around at all, but there are a couple jarring moments. I also plan to do some shallow swimming with it.

I'll post again after I have tried it out.

Testing out Sugru with a Kindle cable, iPhone cable and a custom Munny toy. (UPDATED)

Back in June I came across a post on lifehacker.com featuring this stuff called “Sugru” and posted about how cool this stuff looked.  Recently we placed an order and it just arrived today, so I decided to give it a try.  Check out Sugru.com to find out the specifics of what Sugru is or just check out the pics below and you should make sense of it just fine.

Sugru comes in 5-gram packets (or “sachets” as they’re called on the official website). Here’s what one looks like:



In the background in the above pic you can see the Kindle 2 cable I decided to test the Sugru on.  I hadn’t used my Kindle in a month or two and recently connected it to my MacBook Pro—and as I did, the casing on the cable just beneath each plug had become so brittle it  partially shattered.

Here’s what it looks like once you cut it open:



Sugru feels like Play-Doh crossed with Silly Putty—but much more like Play-Doh.

And here’s the Kindle cable once the Sugru has been smeared on:



And here’s the other end of the same Kindle cable:



And here’s my wife’s iPhone cable with the same treatment.  Both ends of that cable’s casing had broken, but not as bad as my Kindle cable:



And here’s a before-shot of the other end of my wife’s iPhone cable before I put the Sugru on:



And here’s with the Sugru on:



And finally, I tried it out on a custom Munny toy I’ve been working on for a while, but ran into difficulty on. I cut a hole in his butt for part of the project I no longer want to do, so I thought I’d see how Sugru would do at filling the hole:



UPDATE #1: Here’s a pic of the Munny’s butt before I added the Sugru:



The hacked electronics on the other side of that USB port ended up being to tricky to deal with so I opted to simplify things.  Hence, the hole to be plugged…

END UPDATE #1

So, all of the Sugru is curing now and I’ll take more pics tomorrow and post ‘em so you can see how things turned out.

UPDATE #2:  The Sugru has cured but I haven’t had time to post new pics, but I will hopefully get to it later today (20100803 ET).