It is time for our giveaway collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Can you guess what this object is?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

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

Update: The object is an old gambling die. shin knew what it is, and Sonnuvah had the funniest answer: a 35-pound dumbbell buried up to its neck! Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop.

It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

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

Update: The very first comment had the correct answer! UnderpantsGnome knew this object as a spring winder for making conical bedsprings. The award for the funniest answer goes to lonewolfe13, who gave us this gem:

It is obviously for making giant spaghetti balls. First you take your pot of pasta and you tilt it sideways so you can get the tip if the spiral cone into the pasta. Then a friend of yours would spin the crank until you have a flying spaghetti monster worthy dinner.

Both win T-shirts from the NeatoShop. Congratulations, guys!

W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this …thing is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URLs or weblinks, doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

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

Update 11/7/10 – The answer is A Japanese traveling candlestick, it’s missing the part that would have caught the wax. Oskar got it right first, but didn’t specify a T-shirt. Congrats to Cristal who made laugh with “Mr. Burns’ liver spot locator.”

It’s time for our collaboration with the always awesome What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is used for? I have no idea!

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Write no URLs or web links – doing so will invalidate your entry.

Two winners as usual: the first correct guess and the funniest yet ultimately wrong guess will win free T-shirt of their choice from the NeatoShop. (May we suggest browsing the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-shirt, and Artist-designed T-shirt categories?). Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your entry, otherwise you forfeit the prize.

For more clues, definitely check out the What Is It? Blog. You have until the answer is revealed there tomorrow. Good luck!

Update 10/29/10 – The answer is: A carpet stretcher, similar to patent number D26,881. Congratulations to just a guess who got it right and to e7c for George Washington’s Halloween costume’s vampire denture!

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W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What Is It? blog – this week’s mystery object is this gun: can you tell us what it is for? (It has a very specific function)

Place your guess in the comment section – the first to guess correctly will get a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. If no one got it, then the funniest guess will win. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many times as you wish.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog – good luck!

Update 2/20/09 – The answer is A Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 machine gun camera, used to train Japanese aviators in aerial gunnery. The first guess that’s specific enough was #15, by “Give the shirt to the funniest answer ” So, per that request, the free shirt goes to: Melphistopheles for his guess of early colonoscopy device!

Congrats Mel – and thank you to everybody for their awesome guesses. That was fun!

If you like the Hammer Quiz, check this one out: Link – Thanks Rob!

Place your guess in the comment section – no prize this week, so you’re playing for bragging rights only.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog! Good luck!

Update 1/24/09 – the answer is:

A tool used to remove carbon deposits from the gooves of a piston, patent number 1,768,692. Text on it reads: “Owatonna Tool Co. #840, Made in Owatonna, Minn. USA”.

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs, let others play. The first person who guesses right (or gives the funniest guess, if no one gets it right) wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 1/2/09 – here’s the answer: A BLU-26/B ball-type submunition of a cluster bomb, this inert practice piece has aerodynamic vanes and is made of solid metal, it’s also called a Guava Bomblet.

Congratulations to JKirchartz who got it right! And a big thank you and a free T-shirt to Coyote who corrected the missing picture error!