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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

You decide: what do you do with that spare Zigmatroid?

A man holds an allen key tool for DIY
The Zigmatroid looks like this, only very much larger, with a different shape, colour and purpose.

Happy birthday – and look, one of your friends (who knows what a geek you are) havs bought you that super-specialised Zigmatroid, the gadget that is so useful for untightening the kerfuffle nut on your Xbox. (Stay with us, it'll make sense.) They're really hard to get hold of - how kind of them.

Oh, and look, another gift from another of your thoughtful friends. Interesting packaging, it's a....nother Zigmatroid.

You've now got two Zigmatroids, when in all the world you can only ever need one. But you also know that both your friends are linked into your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bebo, Myspace, eBay and pretty much every other account you've ever created. So if you put your spare Zigmatroid up for sale on eBay or wherever, you'll insult not just one but both of them.

Trouble with the Zigmatroid being that it takes up valuable space in your already cramped residence. You really could do with getting shot of it.

What do you do?

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