What Is It? Game 150

It's been a while since we played the What Is It? Game - so let's get crackin' with this one: Can you guess what the strange object above is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Let others play, so do not include any web links or URLs. Two winners as usual: the first person
who guessed correctly and the funniest albeit wrong guess will win T-shirts of their choice from the NeatoShop.

Important: Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess, or you forfeit the prize, mmkay? (May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirt categories?) You have until the answer is revealed at the What Is It? Blog.

For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update 9/18/10 - the answer is: A Fulton traffic light finder, some of the old cars had low roofs that made it difficult to see a traffic light if the vehicle was too close to it, this device was invented so that the driver could hold it near the windshield and see the light through it, patent number 2,526,045.

Mike Morris got it right first, but didn't choose a T-shirt. Congratulations to Samantha B. who first guessed the Sailor Moon wand.

I think that this is a Fresnel Lens part. This type of lens was sometimes in lighthouses, although this one could have had a seperate use.
Neatorama L please
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I am not sure what the name of the part is, but it was used during the mid century, mounted to the dash board of a car, to capture the reflection of a stop light.

Large please... Thankyou
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I'd say some kind of lens. Possibly to measure/inspect the refraction from some kind of reflector (car head lamp maybe?)

BTW, I can't access the neatoshop so i'll just get a Neatobot shirt please. M

okthxbai!
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The once long-lost mystical labrys of Shannara (lessor known than the famous "Sword of Shannara" which if weilded could, according to legend, "f-some stuff up big time."

Thesaurus, XL Ash Grey.
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It's not cheating if you already know, right? My granddad had one of these he took on camping trips.

It's a MuRSid - Morrow-Basen Refraction Signaling Device - much like a signal mirror but the light it casts is not easy to confuse with reflection from the sun on water. It was in limited use in the Pacific theater in WWII and was great for signaling ships across a great distance as it produced a full spectrum light wave kind of like a very bright rainbow.

Little known fact: in open ocean there are no actual rainbows. The reflection of the sky on the water actually cancels out the effect.

(except for the ones created by the MuRSid of course)

You'd be lucky to get your hands on one of these today. Very rare and exceptionally trippy.

("College" black XL)
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It's a lazy kid's ant cooker. Just like a magnifying glass but open on one side so that it can be laid on the ground and ants can wander in on their own.

mosaic skull,mil green, xl
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Proctologist tool for inspecting between especially tight cheeks, that should have been cleaned better after its last use.

a day w/out fussion.....large
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This is the widely-forgotten mustache washbasin. While it was popular in its day, it has gone the way of so many early inventions. Fit your upper lip against the inner curved section, pour water and cleansing agent over mustache and go to town! (Mustache shampoo and scrubbing brush sold separately.) The handle is ergonomically designed to provide comfort for all users.

Gray "Thesaurus" shirt in 2xl please!
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It's a half-fisheye photoshop filter from the pre-computer days.

/get off my lawn!

4 Out of 5 Doctors Prefer Me in white, medium for my Wife, her doctors love the funny shirts I keep finding her.
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it's a shaving dish, an old fashioned tool used to catch the shave drippings of men, the part of the bowl that is cut out is placed against the neck just below the chin.

Neatoramabot - large
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It's Sailor Moon's Crescent Moon Wand, you better find the Imperium Silver Crystal before the Negaverse does!! D:

Sorry forgot to add the shirt, hydrogen bondage size small ladies fit.
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Its a magnifying glass, cut so that you can observe an object half magnified and half not

or

A magnifying glass for dentists to see teeth while someone is smiling.

Amp-bear-sand m
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This is a psychiatric tool for examining politicians. The magnifying part allows the doctor to find the Sense of Honor, while the cut-out prevents magnifying the Sense of Greed

Something went terribly wrong T-shirt XL
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It's a micro cat macro magnifying lens for looking at micro cat macros... one of which reads, "I can has micro cat macro lens?" and another, "I made you cheeseburger but I microwaved it". Get it? MICROwaved?

i want to believe- alien... female med
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This one's easy. My dad had one. It goes in the front window of your car. It allows you to drive right up the white line at an intersection, where the stop light is generally almost directly overhead. You can see the light change overhead in the lens without having to scrunch your head down and forward to look up at the light. You rich kids with multiple lights all over each corner of the intersection wouldn't understand. Now get off my lawn.
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This is used in Greek kitchens. Specially-shaped 'pan' to hold up next to the rotating/cooking lamb-beef gyro cylinder to catch the meat as it is carved off.
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It's a Pie-scoop. You cant touch a pie when it just comes out of the oven, so this Pie scoop is the perfect tool. It wont break into pieces, because of its magnificent design.
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Is it used to collect gyro meat? I saw something similar on the Food network, you push it up against the meat and scrape down and it collects on glass part.
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It's an optical prism used in teaching physics classes that produces several 'rainbow' spectra. The metal handle cover eliminates interference light.

Ok, if it's not that, then it's definitely the part in the Klingon spaceships that makes the fuzzyWuzzy go poppedyWhopp. And you all know what that means.

I'd like the Diagonally Parked Tshirt in Klingon .. errrrm .. I mean XXL, puleeeZ.
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It is Prism, that was mounted inside a auto's windshield,(Ususaly with a suction cup) just under the sun visor (the kind mounted on the outside of the car, over the windshield) so the driver could see the traffic light without backing us, leaning out the window, or bending over to peek under the sun visor.
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The people who guessed "stop light reflector" are almost right...

This is a hand-held visor that I use to keep from having to look directly at my wife when she gives me the "I'm going to kill you" stare.

I know its safe to look at her again when the reflections of the death-ray-lasers that shoot out of her eyes are no longer visible.

Oh no! It was rocket science. Ladies XL.
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It's a windshield mounted traffic light lens. It goes near the top of the windshield on pre 1960's cars that didn't have great visibility so you can see when the light turns.
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Thank you and if it is not to late I will take a large Mosaic Skull in Large. Heck, I am just happy that I finally was able to guess one...

Thank you again and I thoroughly enjoy your site.

Mike
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