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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As the guy that found this and took the photo, I must say it was a little weird. I spend alot of time in Tokyo and enjoy walking the streets just to see what's happening. As you know, the streets there can be a mass of people, and as I tried to dart right to get around some folks I almost stumbled on this suitcase. My first reaction, considering our focus on terrorism, was yikes WMD. But then I noticed nothing was flashing and it was probably something that was just abandoned or destined for the trash. The difference between this happening in Tokyo versus say NYC, is that in NYC there would have been a guy already trying to sell this to me!
Its the SONY Memory Stick Collectors Edition Bag! Create your own proprietary memory card standard with our patented eZ-wire(TM) development system. Batteries not included.
iPhone!!!!!
Its definately a nokia
We have determined this device to be one that has been missing from our labs for a while. It is the Transfluxhypercollodial Intraductase Polymerator. We hoped to use it to release a highly pluberised constraint of a rare Thelium molecule which would generate a quantum shcisticism field. Now our hopes are all dashed.
It's obviously part of the many thousands of these that are positioned around the world that "helps george bush so smrt"*
*caption from the manual
...oh yeah. It also turns into a robot that travels back in time for some reason.
I think this may have something to do with Tom Cruise and his new squeeze being in town to promote WOW Ver.2.
It looks a lot like a device to make sure that Katy remains "clear" minded about her abiding love for Tom and all things Scientific and doesn't harbour any "alien" thoughts about bugging out of this horror show of a relationship.
IMHO anyway
It looks like an terrorist-vibrator-solar-charger
Certainly not the controller of http://www.eodbot.com/ but maybe a case-mod of the enigma-e: http://www.xat.nl/enigma-e/
Seriously, I think it might be the battery and ethernet interface for an Iqvolution 3D Laser scanner. The scanner hooks into a briefcase which looks very similar to that, using it for power and data transfer (funnily enough, by cat5)
http://iqvolution.com/en/Products/Laserscanners.php
I could of course, be completely wrong and it could be the G5 newton which isnt due out ever.
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It's the networking module for the Teledildonics groups sex kit. It allows for nerds to take part in safe group sex using a medium they are comfortable with.
It looks like it might be an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
its a MOOSE!!!!
#3 is right, it's the iPod Jumbo.
its the white house BS generator. i think they were testing to see if japanese BS is superior to american BS and lost the equipment. hence the trouble mclellan is having answering questions. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101284.html
First thought, maybe a clever marketing gimmick for a new movie/video game/etc.. But in this day and age you'd probably get some pretty bad press when a whole city block in cordoned off, and your marketing gimmick destroyed in a controlled detonation!
#66, change the 'whole city block in cordoned off' to: public transport cancelled and evacuated, domestic & international flights grounded, a new threat level colour is invented, and troops are deployed to the Canadian border 'just in case'.
Anyone who has worked in Japan would know its a Wakeupjoe machine, fuelled by Japans work ethic fanaticism. Instead of a char lady, large industrial workplaces there have a Wakeupjoe lady who patrols in the afternoon, and anyone who is caught falling asleep has some KY slapped on their lobes and a swift 50V put through them.
I think this is the underground version of the device (hidden in a wheely case). It was discovered that sometimes the Wakeupjoe machine stimulates more than a desire to work, and wives were encouraging their husbands to get a jolt before coming home ;-)
Anyone who has worked in Japan would know its a Wakeupjoe machine, fuelled by Japans work ethic fanaticism. Instead of a char lady, large industrial workplaces there have a Wakeupjoe lady who patrols in the afternoon, and anyone who is caught falling asleep has some KY slapped on their lobes and a swift 50V put through them.
I think this is the underground version of the device (hidden in a wheely case). It was discovered that sometimes the Wakeupjoe machine stimulates more than a desire to work, and wives were encouraging their husbands to get a jolt before coming home ;-)
Anyone who has worked in Japan would know its a Wakeupjoe machine, fuelled by Japans work ethic fanaticism. Instead of a char lady, large industrial workplaces there have a Wakeupjoe lady who patrols in the afternoon, and anyone who is caught falling asleep has some KY slapped on their lobes and a swift 50V put through them.
I think this is the underground version of the device (hidden in a wheely case). It was discovered that sometimes the Wakeupjoe machine stimulates more than a desire to work, and wives were encouraging their husbands to get a jolt before coming home ;-)
Anyone who has worked in Japan would know its a Wakeupjoe machine, fuelled by Japans work ethic fanaticism. Instead of a char lady, large industrial workplaces there have a Wakeupjoe lady who patrols in the afternoon, and anyone who is caught falling asleep has some KY slapped on their lobes and a swift 50V put through them.
I think this is the underground version of the device (hidden in a wheely case). It was discovered that sometimes the Wakeupjoe machine stimulates more than a desire to work, and wives were encouraging their husbands to get a jolt before coming home ;-)
a diahorea induction machine ?
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