“Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology” is about finding new and unexpected ways to use old technologies (that have clear uses and lower costs).

The late Nintendo designer Gunpei Yokoi, who promoted what he called “Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology”: finding new and unexpected uses for technologies that have been around for a while and therefore (a) have clear patterns of use that you can rely on even when deviating from them, and (b) have decreased in price. —Alan Jacobs