You’re already using your iPod as a vibrator and Ouija board, might as well get life preserving use out of it as well. Pini Nou of Vancouver, Washington recently got lost in the Oregon wilderness and was found via the light from his iPod Nano. Nou’s mother, an experienced mushroom picker who accompanied Nou on his quest to secure the choicest crop of fungi, got separated from her son during the day and had to call Search and Rescue in order to find him.

This got us thinking about other uses for our iPod. There are the various gadget devotees: The Groove Purse brings sound to otherwise mute handbags the world over while iPod boxer shorts suit the music-hearing needs of the never-dressed crowd, but we’re not sure those adaptations fall into the truly purist, alternate use category. The dudes who’ve used iTrip to make Dashboard tunes blare out of nearby lowriding vehicles? That’s the kind of unabashedly geeky/mischievous ingenuity we’re talking about. What weird shit do you do with your iPod?