What Is It? Game 91

1. AlexD
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:18 am

   It is a camera for filming military ballistic tests

2. Guybrush Threepwood
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:20 am

   Woohoo! Alas, FragKing is here! Quake III Deathmatch, anyone?

3. Jared
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:35 am

   Surely that is a badass grappling hook/harpoon firing gun.

4. DeLuxe
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:37 am

   It IS a film/movie camera. Maybe to film insects?

5. whereisthespoon
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:45 am

   Inseminator for reluctant (feisty) cows!

6. Miss Frenchy
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:46 am

   Combination radar/speeder gun device. I think they've outlawed these now, but it used to be legal for Mounties to shoot you if you went a certain number of miles over the speed limit in Canada. I think.

7. bl0ss0m
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:47 am

   Hmm all I can think of is some sort of radar speed gun...for measuring the speed of something?

8. atomicsecrets
   February 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am

   Its a Japanese reel chalk line rifle, of course. For surveying over large distances.

9. ak
   February 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am

   I don't know what it is but i want one.

10. Will Cowan
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    its a high speed medium format camera.. ( hasselblad? )

11. Polx
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    it fires a harpoon ands the attaching cord spools from the transparent angled tube over the muzzle. the fold out crank is for winding the harpoon back in.

    What the actual target it is defeats me.

12. boo
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:23 am

    a camera used to capture combat footage - the cameraman asked for this customization so as to not be distinguishable from other soldiers (during Vietnam, I believe) - but it seems to ma that the enemy would be much less likely to draw down on a cameraman ...

13. cc_d
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Ain't it a ping-pong ball shooter? And is it ever a purty one too!

14. lgoode
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:34 am

    a gun that shoots tranq darts?

15. Give the shirt to the funniest answer :)
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am

    Type 89 Machine-gun Camera

16. zander
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    I would like to say that it shoots ping-pong balls, but it has to be a grappling gun, surely.

17. Sylvain
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:47 am

    It's Sarah Palin's riffle to hunt russian deers over Bering strait.

18. Bill
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    industrial strength pressure washer

19. jmercier76
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Its a 1950 ant-eater feeder. It was pressed to the ground and used to collect ants into the glass tube. This way when you came upon an ill tempered ant eater, you simply had to offer him a tasty treat before traveling through the grasslands of Central or South America.

20. Jim A
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    It appears to be a "gun camera" training device. By replacing a machine gun with this camera, you can tell whether you really had somebody "in one's sights," during a training exercise. Judging from the lack of sights, it replaces an unsyncronized, over-the-wing fixed gun.

21. sandee
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    It's a fish finder and reel combined in one tool.

22. TimO
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:17 am

    Japanese WWII aerial recon camera.

23. N.M.
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    I would have to say that is an ancient CS/ mace/ pepper spray/ whatever you wanna call it shooter. By the size and sturdy looks might need a vehicle or a tripod to serve as a stand.
    So yeah... I think this might be a riot control minigun.

24. AJ
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    It's a bug catcher. Bugs get sucked into the clear collection chamber which detaches so your kids can view the critters. Do not use on daddy longlegs or crane flies because their legs tend to get ripped from their bodies.

25. riverman
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:39 am

    http://tinyurl.com/ak6gss

26. agent0range
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    its a sperm gun for cows

    im correct right

27. No Name
    February 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    It's a banana gun you idiots.

28. Allan
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    It's a t-shirt launcher, like what they use at concerts.

29. Hillary
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    A storm trooper's gun from Star Wars.

30. KIT CLOUD
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    It is a camera gun that was used to train Japanese gunners on war planes. So as not to waste ammo.

31. nemo
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    TimO got it. It's a Japanese Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 camera machine gun used for training. You can see more images of them here:

    http://images.google.com/images?&q=Rokuoh-Sha%20Type%2089

32. doeth
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Marshmallow gun?

33. KIT CLOUD
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    In fact there is one for sale on eBay right now.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/WWII-Japanese-training-gun-camera-Mint-condition-R ARE_W0QQitemZ230325163561QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=it em230325163561&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12 |39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

34. SarahW
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:10 am

    It's a Bowfishing DRAG FISH REEL . Draw, aim shoot: haul back the line with the reel. Maybe with fishy attached, if you are a good shot.

35. bl0ss0m
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    Yup it's a Type 89 Machine-gun Camera by Rokuoh-sha, there's a wikipedia entry on it here:
    http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aerial_cameras

36. SarahW
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Yeah, it's a gun camera. But Mcggyver could catch fish with it.

37. lennyb
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    looks like a line thrower. but it looks like a camera too.
    ill be very interested in the answer

38. Melphistopheles
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am

    Do you really want to know?

    Early. Colonoscopy. Device.

    Check out the huge crank on the side!

    OW OW OW OW OW!

39. Randall
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Its not actually a gun at all. Its a circa 1919 colonoscope. There's a reason grandpa didn't like doctors.

40. shawnstruck
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    T-Shirt cannon?

41. Crash_171
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 35mm half-frame movie camera

42. Randall
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Meph. Too strange.

43. redphone
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Movie camera of some kind I think. Military recon, presumably. If it is, it's WWII I think. Uses the same paint and construction styles as other junk from that time.

44. Johnny-Gwiz
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Crowd Control Beanbag firing gun!!!! also good for long range drunken bag toss!

45. frank420
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:47 am

    It's used to extract tracking devices in the Matrix

46. RS
    February 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Japanese aerial machine-gun style camera from the early 1940's.

47. Sn0zz
    February 19th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    LOLkittenLauncher. Type PE-WP-EW-1337. The clear glass chamber is where you store 2 to 5 LOLkittens. The amout of kittens one is able to fit in there is proportional to their cutenessfactor.
    In case of a shortage of cute kittens, the larger chamber in the back is loaded with a so-called "JackinDE"box containing .38 cheezburgers.
    I can has?

48. AshleyZ
    February 19th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Riot-control beanbag launcher.

49. Roland
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Well I think it is a BEAN BAG GUN for shooting Bean Bags not to kill then but knock them down

50. Jim
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    It is absolutely a Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 camera.

51. Ellen
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    its a rubber bullet gun...

52. angry viking
    February 19th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Swedish made penis enlarger pump

53. linty
    February 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    It's not a camera gun, it's a camera gun. It shoots tiny movie cameras which are used for all sorts of interesting shots. This is what they used to do some of those "bullet time" shots that were made famous in The Matrix.

54. grumpy
    February 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    I think it's a line gun for firing between ships to pull back a line

55. Kayla
    February 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    An old Nerf gun?

56. LisaL
    February 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    You know what it looks like, that weapon in the first Matrix movie. The one Cypher used to kill Dozer, and then Tank used to kill Cypher.

57. DeLuxe
    February 19th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    So AlexD was correct in the very first post! Wow!

58. AJ
    February 19th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    It's a Barbie Defabricator. Insert Barbie into the nozzle, click, and 90 seconds later her clothes appear freshly washed and dried in the collection chamber.

    The Defabricator is usually pink though. This one was owned by a perv.

59. Michael Z. Williamson
    February 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    It's a ballistic test gun. You put a small helpless animal like a bunny or kitten in the window area at front, pull the trigger, and see how much goo dispersal you get from various types of ammo.

60. pboks
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    the crank looks like it might transfer torque to a shaft, and the unit might be held held vertically. Some sort of core sampler w/ view compartment?

61. Lorem Ipsum
    February 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Point-and-shoot camera, perhaps?

62. Wok
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Clearly it is a plasma cannon. Perfect for killing Aliens.

63. AJ
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    It's a keychain. See the ring at the far left. It just needs some keys and then its purpose would be obvious.

64. Shrike
    February 19th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    It's a coin-operated ping-pong ball gun for use at amusement parks. Put a coin in, you get a certain amount of ping pong balls, shoot them at targets. The metal bar by the stock is a mount, pulled back for this picture for some reason.

65. Christophe
    February 19th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

    it's a cement mixer.

66. JamesM
    February 20th, 2009 at 1:11 am

    While this doesn't give you an answer based on what I think the device was... but a remark based on what I think it should be used for:

    "The best way to film people who want to be on Reality TV shows."

    Let's start with the oldest show, Real World, and work our way up to the most obnoxious, saving them for last.

    Oh, and if you can fit the cast of The Hills in there somewhere, that would be great.

67. EdL
    February 20th, 2009 at 1:40 am

    uh, it shoots fishing line, right?

68. imanalchemist
    February 20th, 2009 at 3:37 am

    It is a camera designed to train gunners in accuracy. it shoots half frames of 35 mm film and you can put a watch in the clear section to record time

69. Katie
    February 20th, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    It's a paintball gun!

70. redhead
    February 20th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    looks like a bolt gun used at a slaughterhouse.

    User aims at the cows head, and hits it with a bolt, knocking the cow unconscous. this way the animals throat can be split and it won't feel any pain (except that of being hit by a heavy bolt). user reels in the bolt and waits for the next animal to come along.

    i've never seen a slaughterhouse bolt gun, but the guy who wrote Fast Food Nation gives a good description, and that thing above is exactly what i imagined!

71. karadi
    February 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    It's a gun with built movie camera. It's a pity in spite of this camera ... we haven't been able to eliminate bad acting in movies.

72. Justin E
    February 20th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    It's a BFG!

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