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Congratulation to the last contest winner. Last short contest of 2007! No emails this time, simply reply in the comments what this device isn’t. The prize this week will be another one of those cool tiny helicopters. This contest will run from Saturday to Wednesday (December 29, 2007 – January 2, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. The item to not to guess was an old radio., not that it mattered for this contest. It was hard to narrow it down to one, the winner after much debate is TBlough for comment number 30. “Does anyone really realize how much danger we were in during the Cold War?!?!? This is the Russian “Доменная их в ад” MKIV Nuclear “Football” that was used in the 50’s. The warhead coordinates were entered by the red punch tape (this picture is a file photo showing a dummy tape loaded – you can see it is encoded with all “1″s). The identity of the operator was verified with the um… “probe” connected to the red and blue wires.” The winner is TBlough. Thanks to all who entered.
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Make it funny, crazy, weird… Just use your imagination. With a short vote the best comment will win the prize. 
December 29th, 2007
Here is my entry to demonstrate what we are looking for.
This device was created in response to the 911 crackdown on airport screening. This normal looking suitcase is passed through the carry on metal detectors to ensure screening staff are doing their job. The electronics on the left is a remote detonator and the items in the center is non-functional C4 explosives.
December 29th, 2007
1950 2 input nand gate with ‘automatic power up delay’
December 29th, 2007
This is, quite obviously, an interrogation machine. The Russians were using them back in the Cold War, but nowadays they’re most often used by overzealous human resources departments.
December 29th, 2007
This, well
this is the new Porta-zap
portable electric chair for the executioner on the go.
need to condemn a convict but have no access to the proper facilities?
the porta-zap takes care of everything for you, all you have to do is supply the convict
hook him up plug it in and the knob
ZAAPP
justice has been upheld again!
only 19.95$
December 29th, 2007
This is Russian spy
portable radio-transmiter
December 29th, 2007
Wow, I haven’t seen one of these in ages! I used to have a friend that collected quack medical devices from the 40′s and 50′s. He had several models similar to this.
It’s one of the first implementations of Thomas Edison’s theoretical Portable Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Do-It-Yourself Kit. This model appears to be one in a series crafted by the ZapIt and Sons Corp. between 1943 and 1947. Obviously, it should only be used by a licensed quack physician. Operation of the device is quite simple as the manual is included in the convenient manual-storage space in the bottom of the kit. Simply place the adjustable headband around the patients cranium and connect it to the grounded frame of the kit. Next, attach the included high-voltage, chrome-plated probe to the connector on the right side of the kit. Insert the probe into the appropriate bodily orifice as dictated by the patients ailment. Please consult the included quick reference sheet for more details and exact diagrams. Lubricant is recommended for optimal conductivity. Simply connect the device to a source of 90VDC current[1], flip the power switch (on reverse) and away we go! You may set the pulse voltage, duration, and duty cycle via the knob on the back of the kit. Be sure to immediately disconnect the high-voltage probe from the unit if patient emits showers of sparks.
I’ve heard these units can fetch several thousand USD on eBay if they’re in good condition, so be sure to hang onto yours and get it properly appraised! If it’s in fully working condition you may even opt to start up your own private practice!
Good luck Alan!
[1] – The internal Dynamotor on the right side of the unit will safely isolate and convert the 90VDC input to a 600VAC sinusoidal output current which was believed to be optimal for ECT purposes at the time. This was later disproved after an alarlmingly high amount of cranial explosions. It is now known that the voltage is not the critical factor in ECT, rather it is the operating current. The above ZapIt and Sons Corp. device was unregulated and could potentially source up to 60A per pulse on certain settings. Current ECT devices are limited to 0.5 – 1.0A.
December 29th, 2007
“…This is an aetheral air-vibration to ink-trail transcoder. It has the most ununderstandable working principle, because it does not need any steam power, or stirling engine to work, but it requires a flow of virtually mass-less electrically loaded particles, so its inventor claims. whether this device works, or not, is not known to the writer of this article, but our dear friend Sir Dr. Eisenheim claims that it is without doubt a machine which could end the steam era, and change the world.”
extract from “Queen Victoria’s magazine of Inventions and odd devices”, numero ** from year 18**, about the first electrical dactylograph.
December 29th, 2007
That´s the original iPod, invented by Steve Job´s grandfather.
December 29th, 2007
It’s a 4-wheel drive turtleneck sweater.
December 29th, 2007
it is NOT a vibrator, condom, dildo, bottle or K-Y, blowup doll, or a hooker.
if it is, im keeping my dick away from it because i sure as hell dont want the electrocution to go down THERE!
December 29th, 2007
The first waterproof, GPS Enabled, portable swatch
December 29th, 2007
An anti-gravity field generator. “For the businessman on the fly.”
December 29th, 2007
A weapon of mass destruction. I am totally sure.
December 29th, 2007
the first valve-powered walkman, apple had a way to go…
December 29th, 2007
Its a portable version of X, the Exterminator’s death console, Comes with faulty TUBES and all.
December 29th, 2007
To me it looks like those old radio in a suitecase used to transmit details to and from i.e. London during WWII.
It even has its own antenna mast support
December 29th, 2007
Unfortunately this is not the Marshall amp I have asked Santa for…
December 29th, 2007
This Is The On Board IR Receiver Circuit Out Of The Tiny Helicopter. Sure Is A Powerful Little Thing!
December 29th, 2007
OH NO!!!!! The one time I know what it is and you are asking me to tell you what it isnt!!!! I love this device!! Well what it isnt is a Uniloy Micron, by Johnson Controls H500 Reciprocating Screw Type Extrusion machine. Featuring Allen-Bradley Logic Controlers, with Barber Coleman parison programmer using Moog precision hydraulic variable valves and MinaTech Dual yield leak detectors. The average cycle time for this machine using a 4 mandrel head is 13.5 seconds, producing square gallon 132 gram HDPE bottles. (also devices I love)
December 29th, 2007
its the transmographier from calvin and hobbes!
December 29th, 2007
It’s the black box recorder from the Wright B Flyer. Saw it at the Dayton, OH air show last year.
December 29th, 2007
It’s the original `Continuum Transfunctioner` which can be used to destroy the universe (Please note: the `Rubik’s Cube` is not the original `Continuum Transfunctioner` as stated in `Dude, Where’s My Car?`).
December 29th, 2007
It’s the back of the flux capacitor! Time travel is mine!
*steals almanac*
December 29th, 2007
it’s a shaver. just stick your finger in there and all of your hair’s gone in a flash.
December 29th, 2007
it’s a new type of pomegranate powered dog manufacturing machines.
December 29th, 2007
It’s the interior of my new plasma flatscreen.
December 29th, 2007
I can’t believe its not butter!
December 29th, 2007
Duke Nukem Forever, it’s still not.
December 29th, 2007
Thats what windows did to my computer when it tried to install it’s hardware update.
December 29th, 2007
Does anyone really realize how much danger we were in during the Cold War?!?!? This is the Russian “Доменная их в ад” MKIV Nuclear “Football” that was used in the 50′s.
The warhead coordinates were entered by the red punch tape (this picture is a file photo showing a dummy tape loaded – you can see it is encoded with all “1″s). The identity of the operator was verified with the um… “probe” connected to the red and blue wires.
December 29th, 2007
I see some vacuum tubes, some resistors…… may be one speaker…. a hard case…..
For sure, that thing is not an ipod nano with video
December 29th, 2007
OK, now I know what it is…
Doctors who do house calls are going to be coming back. This is going to be the only piece of equipment they will need.
Having a heart attack, no problem, just plug in some paddles and CLEAR. Need you temperature taken under the tongue or otherwise, just plug in the probe (please remember to use the sterilizing rag first). Place it on the kitchen table and walk behind it for your X-Ray.
December 29th, 2007
It’s a 1950′s prototype for the ipod. It took decades for technology to catch up to the brilliance of seven year old Steve Jobs.
December 29th, 2007
Those aren’t actually valves they’re light bulbs, this device is known as a PID (portable illumination device)it has an integrated petrol generator which is barely visable(part of which being the round thing).this device is usually used as a temporary light for technicians,and repair persons in areas of low viability for example subway tunnels,substation buildings.DUH
December 29th, 2007
earliest version of the Death Star… referred to as the brick of destruction
December 29th, 2007
Wow, well I’ll be.
It’s a Translator for Alien Intelligent Lifeforms (TAIL) module from a Heterogenious Exoskeleton Amorphosis Device (HEAD). It was developed by the United States during the 1950′s after the Roswell alien landings at Area 51 by Sargeant Pepper, working in a close knit group with others under the command of Colonel Mustard.
This particular model, dubbed code name “ID-10-T”, was simpler to use and therefore was often utilized by the newer members of the South Hampton Office of Underwriting Laboratories for Declassifying Extreme Radiation Samples (SHOULDERS) where much HEAD research (commonly abbreviated by the organization as “HEADway”) had been done on long term outer space travel of alien lifeforms. Later models of the TAIL included the S designation. “ID-10-T-(S)” had one minor improvement over the original TAIL: It contained Solid State (hence the S) electronics instead of the previous vacuum tubes used in the audio circuits used in analysis. Though the unit was better in nature, some of the technicians who had grown accustomed to the “warm” sound of the device cried inferiority.
During the 1960′s, and part of the 1970′s, having no new research from outer space, the “ID-10-T” TAIL unit was reappropriated as a torture device for the American counterculture. The non-solid state circuitry was preffered because of it’s superior current handling capability over the solid-state counterpart. Although it has not been confirmed, early reports indicate that the aging generation of hippies who had previously thought to be suffering from the remnants of acid use were subject to torture using this device. Due to the closely guarded and secretive nature of this operation, not much about the process using the TAIL “ID-10-T” device is known, except that it involved isolating the subject in a lead lined room and bound to a gurney with “dispersion” leads attached to extremeties and other strategic locations for optimum electricity dispersal in small, yet increasing amounts. (The red retention device in the above picture is one such example of the material used to secure the subject, and has been attached to the unit for display purposes only). Also attributed to changing times, the end of the hippie movement and the decrease of unemployment in the United States during the late 1970′s was actually a result of the use of this device on counterculture to end political dissidence.
After the research was bought by the Microsoft corporation in the 1980′s, the device was slated to be used for the same purposes previously discussed, but as usual, after many enhancements and upgrades to the circuitry of the device by Microsoft, the device ceased to work properly and now sits in the archives somewhere on the Redmond campus in Washington.
December 29th, 2007
its one of microsofts servers
December 29th, 2007
That definitely isn’t a cell phone. But I’m pretty sure its a electrostatic hydromatic personal public wireless self-powered perpetual confusion ray bomb or EHPPWSPPC ray bomb for short. I mean look at all these answers. No one can agree on what it is, heh.. some people dont even know what time period they live in. Luckily I was wearing a tin foil hat (to block out the MLB satellite mindreadingray) so the EHPPWSPPC ray bomb didn’t have any effect on me. I’m the only one thinking rationally.
December 29th, 2007
This is Rube Goldberg’s watch.
December 29th, 2007
it is clearly the innards of the first portable defibrillator thats meant to be used on airplanes, or as George W. Bush sees it, it’s a bomb that’s carried by terrorists to do their terrorist deeds.
December 29th, 2007
The device is a new prototype for a cellphone. Is will be used to talk (mobile) with the spirits.
December 29th, 2007
Clearly it’s the iPhone 2.0; the sleek briefcase design and the loose leaf paper at the bottom are dead giveaways.
December 29th, 2007
Leon’s Theremin?
December 29th, 2007
This device isn’t a 2008 windows laptop, it’s a 2009!!
December 29th, 2007
Oh! This was on Doctor Who!!! This is the heart of the TARDIS! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALAN!? Haven’t you been listening to ANYTHING the doctor said? You aren’t supposed to look into the heart of the TARDIS! Rose did, and look what happend to her! Now what have you gone and done? You tricked a bunch of poor electronics/programming/hacker geeks into looking right into the heart of the TARDIS! Oh no. no no no no no no no no. this is NOT good! NOT GOOD AT ALL!
December 29th, 2007
It’s a Mac-compatible, blend-able, Doom playing, fanboi wetdreaming, iPod killer
December 29th, 2007
Obviously this is the result of a conversion of Windows Vista to hardware. Its ugly, its complicated, and not remotely user-friendly.
December 29th, 2007
Its A new prototype, antenna less linksys wireless-super Z router with a range of 80,000 teramiles( That Right!! A teramile!)
December 29th, 2007
This is a high-radioactive x-ray cellphone.
It sends its signals using high-power x-rays.
They are so powerful, that everyone who stands next to it (2-3m) will die 2-4 days later.
So you need a long cable, and the cathod-ray-tube which generates the x-rays is really heavy, that’s why you need a car to transport it.
(Sorry for baaaad English, I am German^^)
December 29th, 2007
It’s a NoWay radio.
December 29th, 2007
It’s a plasma box that explodes and shoots raw plasma everywhere!
December 29th, 2007
It’s obviously a salami slicer.
December 29th, 2007
Wow!!! It’s Albert Einstein’s original recharge station.
When 2+2=6 and the fritz of the hair was going flat,
Ole’ Albert would grab a unified field gamma glob and
use this unit to zap his alien cortex back into shape.
Nice to see it again after all those years in the closet
over at Hanger 18. And it’s good to see the cable end
doesn’t have the oscillating overthruster attached.
(… or bad things would happen Buckaroo!)
December 29th, 2007
Obviously, as anyone can tell, this is a stealth high-powered railgun for the assassin on the go. The spent ammunition belt is clearly visible on the left, the directions are folded in the bottom of the ‘briefcase,’ and the two knobs used for aiming the device are on the inside of the fake briefcase siding.
Obviously this is a crude prototype, as the device still needed to be plugged into an electrical socket via the red and blue wired plug on the right. I still wonder how you got a picture of this… they retired that model years ago. You should see the devices we… errr I mean the assassins have now.
December 29th, 2007
This isn’t not a Ghetto Blaster.(Intentional Double Negative)
December 29th, 2007
it certainly isn’t a case full of female hygiene products!
December 29th, 2007
It’s clearly whats inside the breifcase at the end of pulp-fiction!
December 29th, 2007
It’s a device for extracting intelligence out of modulated Hertzian waves that have passed over large bodies of water, and converting it to pneumatic variances.
December 29th, 2007
Its a flux capacitor… I know a saturn that needs that so I know if I should be betting against the Leafs (Toronto Maple Leafs).
Then again I don’t really need to visit the future… they suck this year, but taking out Hilter might make it on to my todo list.
December 29th, 2007
It’s obviously *NOT* a gonculator.
December 29th, 2007
This, gentlemen, is a perfectly ordinary briefcase.
December 29th, 2007
It is the highly successful game console of the 1300’s I cant remember the name right now… it may come to me later… but it is the equivalent of the NES today (for the reason that everyone hacked them… one popular one was to hollow it out and make it into something that I refer to as brief case) I loved playing with one as a child… (My father worked for the company that made them)
This is how you work it:
- You stick a reel of film on the red strip with holes in it (the holes are there to help you fasten the reel to it…(I don’t know why somebody fastened it down… the metal rectangular things are there to make sure it stops correctly…)
- You take that “handle” on the top and you can slide it left and right. When you move it to the right you will hear one of 3 sounds… a high pitch beep a low pitch beep or a wave between the two… here is how you know what they mean:
- High pitch beeps mean go the other direction because something bad will happen
- A low pitch beep means that you are safe for now in that spot
- A wave between the two means that you have hit the bad thing and there is a game over…
- When you hear the high pitch beep you will see that the reel will “move (it only moves to a new frame…)” compared to what is going on with the game… when something bad is about to happen you will see a rock flying towards you (did I forget to mention that there are 2 players on the screen and you are the one on the right [there are different people per reel])… when you are safe you will just be standing there… and when something bad has happened you will see a rock that is in a part of your body… (Depending on which reel you have they will be in different parts of the body)
Here is a definition of what each part did…
+ The tubes in the back emitted light through the “screen” and helped you see what was going on…
+ The black thing in the upper right corner is a speaker
+ The rusty things in the upper left corner is actually one of the first processors… they weren’t made with silicon like the ones we have today microprocessors are made of.
+ That metal tube on the left is a battery pack that you had to refill with mercury, that stuff in lava lamps (or at least what they used to be made of…), and 3 lemons… this battery would last for about a month of constant use…
+ The power that came from the battery pack goes to the gray transformer that changes the power into 400v ac that is required to make the processor function.
+ The thing that everyone else is referring to the probe is actually the on/off switch.
+ The wires are well… wires…
+ The handle also functioned as a handle to carry it around with… when you wanted to go over to a friend’s house… when you would close up the front of the case you would also triggered a locking system in the handle…
That is all I can remember at the moment (as you may or have not noticed that I am over 700 years old… by 15 years to be exact so my memory isn’t what it used to be…)
Also I remembered another thing… the place where the papers are now was the place to store the extra reels that you had (or the place to put them when you were moving it around…)
Have fun with your game console
And if you have anymore questions don’t hesitate to ask… I may not answer today… but I will answer them after I run a few marathons…
December 29th, 2007
It is NOT the device used to implement ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space” – the resurrection of the dead – which explains why we haven’t seen Vampira, Bela Lugosi, or Tor Johnson lurching around lately.
December 29th, 2007
it is definitely not a substitute for human interaction
December 29th, 2007
That, is the future.
December 29th, 2007
It’s a Quantum Frobnobulator a quack gadget from the 1970s that was touted by it’s inventor to cure cancer before it even started. The FDA moved slowly back then but the ponzi scheme built by ‘inventor’ Howard Imadmelamo started collapsing and he was arrested before he could flee the country with a stash of diamonds and bullion.
December 29th, 2007
FAIL:(
December 29th, 2007
Well of course, this is a portable time machine!
December 29th, 2007
Err, NOT a portable time machine. my bad, left out a word.
December 29th, 2007
This cleary is NOT where Osama Bin Laden has been hiding (where osama’s been hidin’ … mwhahaha … sorry for the lame joke).
December 29th, 2007
This is a secret CIA device used for population control in enemy territory. An agent walks around town, and the device emits rays that render spermatozoa nonfunctional.
Unfortunately, the early model had a range of only five feet, and the agent forgot to don his lead BVDs. Only one was ever built.
December 29th, 2007
A timebomb!
December 29th, 2007
huum, sturdy case , built-in power generator, it is hard drive-free, runs on the Linux operating system and antenna that stretches wireless networks with “mesh” technology that lets each computer in a village relay data to the others.
its obviuosly MIT’s $100 OLPC.
December 29th, 2007
That my friends, is the contraption they used to pierce nipples back in the 50′s. Technology sure has come a long way, as now its shrunk to a needle’esqe looking device!
December 30th, 2007
Its not the tiny helicopter that I just won.
December 30th, 2007
It’s definitely not an egg sandwich!!!
Well, I guess you wont get that if you havent watched the following vid, which is NOT made by me, but funny as hell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvONzD6gnck
December 30th, 2007
Whatever it is, it needs more cowbell.
December 30th, 2007
This was one of the original Nixie Tube laptops. OBVIOUSLY.
^_^
December 30th, 2007
This device is NOT the “mystery monster” in the upcoming “Cloverfield” movie.
December 30th, 2007
(2nd entry)
This device is actually a method of sneaking into somewhere. If you look carefully, you’ll see that there are eight Ninjas in that box. All the hardware, etc, is for misdirection and/or potential weaponry. (Nixie Strike! Huah!)
December 30th, 2007
It is clearly NOT an early prototype of a Flux Capacitor.
December 30th, 2007
This is obviously a device for making pizza, which was responsible for the invention of MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3).
It was invented by a group of inventors under the control of Hermann von Siemens.
The tube on the left is actually a nicely designed knife which can be used to cut tomatoes, onions, garlic and of course salami. The other end of the knife also serves as a lighter, which is used to light up wood (which in turn generates the heat required for baking). The rest of the box is actually just random stuff from the local garbage dump, because the corporate group faced financial difficulties and had to cut R&D expenses.
Needless to say, it was not very successful.
The failure of this food cooking machine was the critical impulse for Hermann von Siemens to focus his work in other areas (audio codecs) at the Fraunhofer Society, which is why we have MP3 now.
December 30th, 2007
This device clearly is not the infinite improbability drive.
December 30th, 2007
This appears to be the worlds first portable printer. Anything portable must have a handle, and just because it may take King Kong to lug this little puppy around doesn’t make it any les portable.
Side note and alternate use : Space heater (takes up space and throws off heat )
December 30th, 2007
oh come on! thats easy!!!!
its OBVIOUSLY an atomic vector plotter that has been cut open, and its transistors pulled out and replaced with cleaner, crisper, more natural sounding tubes!.. although im not sure why an atomic vector plotter would need to sound crisp?.?.?!
December 30th, 2007
It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.
December 30th, 2007
its obvious. this is NOT SPARTA!!!!
December 30th, 2007
its a volume modifyer, it makes stereophonic devices louder, or quieter depending on how many tube amps are contained within its chassis.
December 30th, 2007
Clearly, given all the tapes running through reels, electrical relays, wadded-up manual stuffed in the bottom, AND the fact that it is hidden in a briefcase…this can be NONE OTHER than the iPhone’s prototype, circa 1969. It can play 11 seconds of your favorite music, if you only pay an additional $5 to Apple for “rights” to that Beatles LP you already own.
December 30th, 2007
An Iraqi WMD, sorry George keep looking.
December 31st, 2007
(Third try – cleverly edited 2 questionable words)
This device was found damaged in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. After 60 years of painstaking research and careful re-assembly at Hangar 18, it has come to be understood that it’s purpose was “to scan, analyze, quantify, and transmit vital information on indigenous humanoid lifeforms of visited planets”.
This is, my friends, the mysterious, oft rumored “ANnuAL Probe Mark II”.
The power source, which connects to the white connector with red and black wires, Is still classified as Top Secret, and will be for some time to come.
The charred remains of the operator’s manual yielded this usage description. (The alien language was finally translated in August, 2007.)
“The test subject is to straddle the case, hold the handle in his/her/its right hand between the legs, tighten the notched belt across his/her/its lap, and the machine is turned on. Much flashing and whirring ensues, and the probe (in tube visible to the left side of the case) extends(is rammed home).
The subject is expected to vocalise in some way during the test.
The subject’s cowboy hat may be held in the left hand and waved, while yelling “YeeeeeeeHaaaaaa! This is the preferred posture.
The analysis takes about 2 Earth hours, down from the uncomfortably long 5 Earth hours of the Mark I version.”
There appears to be no technology included that would produce the rumored “flaming frats”. Perhaps that functionality was introduced in the Mark III or later model.
December 31st, 2007
no, no, no.. see you have got it all wrong!!
This is Unkel Phreads Handy Dandy Paper-fed Thermo Nuclear Garage Built Doomsday Device! With push button action!
Its only $19.99! If you call now!
Just call 404-221-5519 and ask for yours today!
And now with Self Replicating, Self Mutating Nano Bots…
December 31st, 2007
Its a random zero generator. It randomly generates the number zero. Who knows when it will generate the next zero.
December 31st, 2007
mmmm…a cheddar cheese log…nomnomnom
December 31st, 2007
Original prototype for the “One Laptop for Every Child” (GW Bush Model)
December 31st, 2007
RIP SOUNDWAVE
December 31st, 2007
if I win, can I have a thinkgeek giftcard instead??
I already have 2 helicopters.
December 31st, 2007
or it could be the first GPP(Genuine People Personality) created by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, the mood of it was designed to replicate the mood “annoyed”.
the prototype did’nt work ery well as it was always extremely giddy.
December 31st, 2007
A Transmodulating Super Computer complete with Flux capacitors for time travel, 3 cup holders, leather seats, sugar refinery, transformation capabitlities, and LED lights.
December 31st, 2007
Hi Joebob,
Sorry, if you win you will need a third hand to control this helicopter. Or you will have a re-gift for next Christmas.
January 1st, 2008
darn. well Alam, just know that I’ll be UBER angry if I win!!
January 1st, 2008
It’s a prototype for the first Automatic Red Tape generator. Back in the 50′s, our government was still creating red tape by hand. With this machine, they hoped to be able to create it automatically. The final production design worked MUCH better and we have been mired in endless red tape ever since.
January 1st, 2008
It’s an astrophysiodiscombobulator.
DUH.
January 1st, 2008
It’s a unique machine. A dog’s ass shutter. (DAS)
Greenest cities in the world have decided to act against the biggest threat to their streets’ cleanliness : dog poops. With this brand new machine, they intend to create the first species of clean animals.
Special units will travel through the cities by foot with this machine, and catch each dog they encounter to shut the poor animal’s asshole forever. They just have to put the special plug (with red and blue wires) in the right place, put the machine on, and bring peace to the sidewalks.
Results are very impressive, a 100% reduction of the number of poops in the streets. The product has been fast patented.
PS : Some ludites insist that dogs don’t survive more than 1 week to the operation. But no link has been proven between the operation, and sudden death of the poor animals.
January 1st, 2008
Zenith Transoceanic radio – top of the line ‘portable’ radio, multi-band w/shortwave bands and wavewmagnet antenna. these were made for decades with various changes (to keep up with the changing technology of the era)- wish I had one, nice analogue sound.
January 1st, 2008
As a new father I know it’s definitely Not A Dirty Diaper!
January 1st, 2008
This is the final version of OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child). I want one of those.
January 1st, 2008
This clearly is not the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator. The PU-36 was a two tube device.
January 1st, 2008
This is the latest addition to a line of accessories for the mini-helicopter:
The (optional) ‘TransOceanic’ long-range version of the helicopter r/c using vacuum-tubes (as specified) for maximum protection against E.M.P. explosions.
The device was invented by the parallel research team funded by the the ‘Whirlybird’ mini-helicopter project.
As you are aware, the mini-helicopter was developed in the Peoples Republic of China (by Whirlybird) and the ‘TransOceanic’ r/c was developed in ‘Chicken’, Alaska (look it up – really!!!) via a work-incentive grant of $100 back in 1941…
Communication between the two groups is limited to written correspondence, that occasionally got lost in the mail, thus impacting upon the product release time lines!
While undergoing field trials, the ‘TransOceanic’ remote was allegedly reported by the developers in Alaska as ‘well capable of controlling and flying the ‘Copter’ over a 2000Km range’ – unfortunately, we were unable to verify that as apparently, during the maiden-flight the Copter’s battery ran out after a few minutes and it plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean…
January 2nd, 2008
is it a radar jamer?
January 2nd, 2008
Its a Crayon
January 2nd, 2008
This Device is a NASA BLACK BOX. Capable of creating a black hole, only for the user to be teleported and never seen again- Why isnt this in space? Well because every destructive human wants this. And I want the prize
January 3rd, 2008
It so simple. This is the prototype for the new Diebold voting machines.
January 3rd, 2008
it’s my mom!
January 3rd, 2008
Wait a second, that’s not fair! It really IS his Mom!
Okay, that was low, but I couldn’t help it
January 3rd, 2008
Dude, Your Mom has a nice set of tubes!
January 3rd, 2008
your mom goes to college.
January 3rd, 2008
LOL
Loving the your mama jokes.
January 4th, 2008
The first Breast Pump.
January 4th, 2008
This is not my large automobile!
January 5th, 2008
OH, CRAP! I *SO* SORRY, accidently emaild u answer insted of comment here.
*PLEASE* delet my email.
I’ such a doofus..!11!!.
–Phil.
P.S. SORRY for ruining the fun everybdy…
January 6th, 2008
Hm so which comment has won?
January 6th, 2008
Hi Ildenar,
Winner will be announced this coming week (decision has not yet been made).
January 10th, 2008
This isn’t a “short contest”.
January 10th, 2008
Winner announced. Thanks for making this contest so much fun to judge!
January 19th, 2008
[...] Just like the Name the Thing Contests in the past you can send your answer by email. You can also guess what it isn’t by leaving a comment in the comments section below. The contest will also run till mid-week instead [...]
May 30th, 2008
[...] No emails this time, we are going to do another Guess what this isn’t contest since the last one was so much fun! Simply reply in the comments what this device isn’t. Make it funny, crazy, [...]