What Is It? Game 98

Posted by Alex in What Is It on May 7, 2009 at 7:49 am


W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the always-fun What is It? blog. Can you guess what this strange contraption pictured to the left is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please – though you can enter as many as you’d like. Please post no URL or weblinks – let others play (you’ll be disqualified if you do so).

The first person who guessed right will get a Free Neatorama T-shirt. If no one gets it right, then the funniest guess will win.

Is it a prototype Dalek? Find more clues at the What is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update 5/8/09 – that was too easy! Here’s the answer: A TaylorMade golf club display stand, these can be found near the indoor practice area in a golf shop. It would not have held a full set, but a selection of different models of the same number club, I saw a display like this in a local shop and it was full of six irons. The clubs were available for customers to hit a few balls with each to compare the performance of the various models.

Congratulations to: Joe #8 who got it right first!


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50 comments to "What Is It? Game 98"

  1. Jared
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    Some kind of crazy futuristic Golf Caddy?

  2. Aidan
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:23 am

    it's obviously a spaghetti enlarger, scan your small piece and press the number of copies, voila! giant spaghetti!

  3. taliesyn30
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:23 am

    A giant mobile cheese grater

  4. Gauldar
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    It's a M.S.L.S. (Moble Sausage Launcher System).

  5. Buhandi
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    composter.

  6. blindermo
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:28 am

    Compost maker

  7. Chris P
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Recycle Bin

  8. Joe
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am

    This is a cart for a golf club fitting set. The same club (say a 6-iron) with different shafts an lie angles are used to determine the right fit for different golfers.

  9. Sean
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Demo Golf club holder

  10. Rob
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Solar battery storage.

  11. Lindsay
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    It's a parking meter safe. Meter maids empty the daily loot by unlocking part of the meter and plugging it into this safe to empty the money. The meter can only be emptied by this safe so the meter maids can't steal the money.

  12. Joe
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:52 am

    its the cart they use to collect the coins out of slot machines or parking meters so they stay secured

  13. Nyetwerke
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    It looks like a robotic paint striping maching to paint the parking and other associated guidance lines on parking lots.

  14. Miss Cellania
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:17 am

    It's an instrument of torture.

  15. oc stomias
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    It's a broom caddy - for street broom vendors.

  16. Mindy
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am

    I think it's a bullet proof caddy for money transfers. Like a handcart brinks truck.

  17. Hasib
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    A bomb disposal device -- it contains the flying shrapnel and directs blast upward

  18. ttohid
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    used for transporting oversized cats. it's the upgraded version with 2X the breathing holes.

  19. Craig
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    compost bin, as said at #6

  20. Clotho
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Joe got it with #8

  21. Gauldar
    May 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    @Miss Cellania

    Yes, it very well may be, but how does it work!? :D

  22. RBD
    May 7th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    R2D2 v1.0.2

  23. Karin
    May 7th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Its a Janitor's caddy. The holes are for broom, mop, etc. And the inside for the other supplies needed

  24. Robster
    May 7th, 2009 at 10:55 am

    chalk caddy to make lines on a baseball field

  25. Matt
    May 7th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Portable Whack-a-Mole/Brick making machine

  26. Judy B
    May 7th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    Is that a prom date for R2D2?

  27. AJ
    May 7th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    It's a parking space with someone's junk illegally dumped on it.

  28. raspop
    May 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    it i for sun-umbrellas

  29. drewt
    May 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    definitely the bomb exploding device

  30. Ajan
    May 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Portable Washing Machine :P

  31. jezebel420
    May 7th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    floral cart for selling flowers on the street

  32. Dread Pirate Robert
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    It's a portable umbrella stand, with receptacle for disposable plastic umbrella covers, or "brolly condoms" as we used to call them in Japan.

  33. Christophe
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    16 rockets fireworks launcher

  34. chuck h.
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    This a display or storage rack used in golf pro shops to hold clubs.

  35. Desmond
    May 7th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    A storage system for umbrellas

  36. Jenn
    May 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    This is a "hot ashes" industrial trash bin. Ever notice the large plastic bins that say "no hot ashes"? That's because the plastic would melt. This metal hot ash bin also has holes on top for ventilation.

  37. D_girl
    May 7th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    i think its a piece of a old computer.

  38. substudio
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    it's the robot cart from the 1980's movie "flight of the navigator!"

  39. Mr.Kris
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    Joe nailed it at 8......DAMNIT!!!!

  40. Irradiated
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    Water show contol box.

  41. TerryI
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    It is, in fact, a vendor's caddy for cotton candy at a fair or perhaps a sporting event.

  42. Jay
    May 7th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Lindsay wins (see 11th comment). It's used to collect money from parking meters.

  43. twodollars
    May 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    It looks as if it is something used to burn things in, possibly a compost burner or portable smokehouse for meat.

  44. Peperuka
    May 8th, 2009 at 2:39 am

    Used battery disposal

  45. zbelljegger
    May 8th, 2009 at 4:03 am

    David Beckham is in Beckingham Palace when there is a knock at the door.
    David answers it to be faced with a bin-man.
    The bin man says “Alright Becks, where’s yer bin?”
    "I been out in the back with the kids” replies Becks.
    “No!” says the bin man “Where’s yer wheelie bin?”
    “Alright, you’ve got me - I’ve weally been on the loo”.

  46. Keno
    May 8th, 2009 at 4:31 am

    I think it is a dry ice fogger used in stage productions to produce fog.

  47. Cat Simmons
    May 8th, 2009 at 7:34 am

    It's a trash bin w/air vents.

  48. Stephen Burns
    May 8th, 2009 at 8:25 am

    I am pretty sure that this is a caddy used by meter maids to empty parking meters. The coins in a parking meter are deposited into a container which only opens when it is placed into the square hole so the meter maids can't skim some change off the top.

  49. felix
    May 8th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    it is an automated tennis ball launcher!

  50. bigmas
    May 8th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Its a compost bin...dddduuuuuuuhhhhhhh!!!


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