Here is an old Mini DV tape case—do people use these anymore?—as an iPhone stand. Sometimes the best inventions are out there in plain sight, waiting for that dohment of obvious realization.

To make this stand, all you need to do is open the Mini DV tape case and place your iPhone inside. The dimensions of the tape case are surprisingly well-suited to hold an iPhone securely.

If you shot home videos between 1995 and 2010, there’s a good chance you did so with a tape-based Mini-DV camcorder ... quality is negligible, but the storage savings are huge.