Mystery gadget
By Barb Dybwad 
posted July 12th 2005 7:00AM
posted July 12th 2005 7:00AM
posted July 12th 2005 7:00AM
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I immediately thought it had something to do with bombs.
It looks like a portable rig for demonstrating displays of some sort, like a technical sales person might carry.
Lots of displays, contact points, and cables to demostrate the different displays in varying situations.
One upset sales guy.
Partially Assembled Car Bomb? Seriously, I'd LOVE to see somebody get that through customs!
The ends of the white leads look like the iPod ones, minus the earbuds.
It's a TENS Unit. TENS is a method of applying controlled, low-voltage electrical stimulation to large, myelinated peripheral nerve fibers via cutaneous electrodes for the purpose of modulating stimulus transmission and relieving pain. Mostly used by muscle freaks and for rehabilitation.
It looks to me like a suitcase EEPROM programmer, akin to the models shown at http://www.oceanviewcom.com/r1801_info.htm and http://www.hallelectronics.com/getech/prog4.htm, which are typically used to program ROMs for radio devices, etc....
Anybody got links for the other devices that have been mentioned?
Definitely something to do with electrical current me thinks. Perhaps there is a Humanoid robot out there on the lose who will lose all his power soon .
It's a cloaking device. You cut holes in your forearm, back and neck and then connect the wires to the appropriate holes. Turn a few knobs in the briefcase and you're invisible.
Strange. I thought everyone had one.
It's a medical bag from the future.
...And you broke it!
Now we're all doomed, dammit.
It's actually a calculator, but instead pressing keys keys, you have to plug the wires in the right socket.
Seriously, I think its a test device for some heavy duty machineries, used by service technicians.
Swami... Swanson.. Somi, suss... Oh Samsonite! I was Way OFF
on first look i thought it was a TENS machine as well, my sister is a pysio and uses stuff
like this so i'd be fairly confident it is!
It's a time machine. You carry the briefcase and run to 88 miles an hour to travel back in time. Looks like someone stole the flux capacitor, though.
#3 you need to grow up. you're sick and when your 1100 hours are up please go back to your cavemen.
It's an "electro-big-penisurur" enhancer that malfunctioned. Call out Godzilla before the large pink flesh monster attacks Tokyo!!!!! IEEEEEYYEEE!!!!!!!!!
Please return my modded Ipod at once. It took two long years to perfect a 7.1 stereo headphone jack along with a built in 1000 watt vacuum tube amp.. It was stolen at the International Consortium of Wild Pygmy Dingo Breeders show in Japan. I beg of you, please return my precious...
I think its a samoflange, used for tracking brammage, and yes #3 is and idiot.
It was the device that the Bush Adminstration had used to cow the press. With the devices loss, they are finally doing their job (well, at least for the day). Too see what happens when the KowTow 9000 isn't working, see this display http://www.michaelmoore.com/_images/splash/scotty_rove_71105.mov .
It's the latest in compact design and easy-to-navigate UI mobile phone from Motorola. This is the first a company spokesperson said, "has all the bugs worked out of it and will provide crystal clear sound a portability for today's 'fashion-conscious' mobile user." Looks like a winner to me.
I'm not sure what it is, but I am sure that if that thing was found lying in the streets of London, New York or Tel Aviv it would have been quickly blown up by the bomb squad.
It's CLEARLY a battery pack for an iPod. It is still under development but they say that it will be able to expand iPod battery life to 3 hours of playtime... :-)
hidden upskirt cam??
it's a pirate radio station
'I will not comment on the ongoing investigation. I will comment when the time is right and now is not that time. I cannot comment while the investigation is ongoing.'
Movie prop of a mind control unit for the next Tom Cruise movie: "Religion from my Mind"
Gawd this is so obvious people. It's the controller for the new Nintendo game console.
A bunch of crap in briefcase just to divert your attention to the latest scandal in the bush Whitehouse.
Birth control can be fun and portable! This is the multiple partners edition.
It is used to reprogram laser targeting control modules so they can shoot at professor's houses and superheat vast amounts of popcorn.
WMD?
rotary girder
hey, i think tens devices are pretty freaking expensive. ya lucked out. HELLoooooO EBAYYYYY
Excellent obscure movie reference #28
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1yZWFsIGdlbml1c3xodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=21
This is actually the latest super efficient city car by Honda. It's parked right now. Looks like it may have been vandalized.
It's a Voight-Kampf testing rig.
Let me tell you about my mother.
Hmmm... "Real Genius" is an obscure move? I'm betting that better than 75% of the people reading Engadget have seen it at least once... :-)
OK, I should have said obscure for non-netgeeks. At least I didn't say that about #33, then I would deserve to be ripped a new one.
Only one phrase for you: "Has anyone ever seen 'ALIAS'"?
I think it's pretty obvious that this is an "audit" machine from the Church of Scientology, used to help its members get rid of blockages by removing particles said to have come from billions of aliens dying in volcanoes a million years ago.
-L. Trom Hubcruise
a bluetooth enabled heroin injector?
I think it's pretty obvious that this is an "audit" machine from the Church of Scientology, used to help its members get rid of blockages by removing particles said to have come from billions of aliens dying in volcanoes a million years ago.
-L. Trom Hubcruise
I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought, that looks like a bomb... What do you mean by "It was found?" It was just lying there on the sidewalk?
Come on this is an easy one! It's an external battery for the PSP. This will give you up to four hours of battery life!!
matt. matt, matt, you don't even-- you're glib. You don't even know what that suitcase is.
Ladies and Gentlemen, finally there is the all new Apple PowerBook G5!!!
Japanese version of The Enigma?
OK guys here is is, seriously, I have seen somthing simmilar in my dads friends office who works with micro precision laser measurements, although i don't think the box has anything to do with that, to my knowledge I am pretty sure that tis is a charging device for peripherals such as ohh memory devices for big machinery or something to do with heavy machinery
It's a LiteBrite bulb tester.
Re: Post #25
It is a "Watcher Unit" developed by the Chruch (er, this just in...cult) of Sciencetology. It records who you talk to, how high you jump on sofa's, and just how big an ass you made of yourself that day. It also records your income and takes 50% as a donation to L. Ron Hubbard's big joke that some take a bit too seriously. Oh, and if you are losing a debate with those fisty morning "news" shows (we all know how smart THEY are) it blows up the studio.
This is clearly an automatic Christmas tree waterer with the optional Ethernet hub.
I think engadget is on to something here... I think they need to start a series called the "obscure gadget of the week". They could just post the picture and let people try and figure out what it really is. This one has generated some pretty funny comments. But make sure the gadget is real! Image doing this with yesterdays "Mind Molester".
ROFL
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