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The prize will help you out on your next camping trip, you can never have enough flashlights (speaking from experience).
Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.
————————————–———- Added August 9, 2008 The item to guess was a Arc Lamp Tube The winner is Steve K. Thanks to all who entered. ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the prize.
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July 27th, 2008
I got this one!
July 27th, 2008
I used to install these for a living.
July 27th, 2008
I amost didn’t see the contest with it starting on a Sunday
OK, I know what it is too (and found the picture).
July 27th, 2008
You have a leg up on the others if you have actually worked with them Rob.
No guess work for you…
July 28th, 2008
1. Explosives Detonator.
2. This rare item was last featured in the movie Executive Decision starring Kurt Russell at which point it was scrapped due to the realization that while it was a cool idea for a physical detonator, it was powerless to the electrical insulating power of a half chewed coffee stirrer.
July 28th, 2008
Got it: This is definitively a pocket light down below
SCNR
July 28th, 2008
Well since everyone else is posting their answers, here’s mine. It is a second generation flux-capacitor. The one used in “back to the future” was loosely based on the first gen.
July 29th, 2008
I wonder what it would be like to put one of those in a … a… One of those things that there are videos of people putting things of this object’s nature in to… (Hehe… If you know what it is, you know what I mean, but if you don’t you’re probably still in the dark.)
July 29th, 2008
I think it is time for a guess what it isn’t contest.
July 29th, 2008
Electronic geeks would say it resembles a giant sized Germanium diode.
not..
It’s a heavy duty crystal radio detector, for use in high RF environments.
July 30th, 2008
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to have a clue as to what the item is. Finally, an easy one.
July 30th, 2008
it looks like a low power *** tube.
July 30th, 2008
Maybe I should’nt post this, but, would an *** tube have “..is under internal pressure..” labled on
the side of it? Just something to ponder.
August 1st, 2008
he he he i could use a flashlight! totally didnt have one last time i went camping lol lanterns suck.
August 1st, 2008
pow!!! If you have worked with it… you know what that means.
August 1st, 2008
Many thanks to Alan for a most interesting web site. I would not have known what this
item was, or for that matter, many things shown on your site before this.
I now know what this is, after some research. May others be enlightened as well.
August 2nd, 2008
One thing we learn from this is how to google efficiently
August 9th, 2008
Winner announced.
August 20th, 2008
i know what is SHOULD be….. one hell of a bong