This week's What is it? and Neatorama collaboration is this strange-looking box. Guess what it is and win a Neatorama T-Shirt. More clues at What Is It?
Rules: first person who correctly identify the object wins. Please post no URL links in the comments. See last week's guessing game winners.
Update 12/04/06: It's a voting box (or a blackball box). Congratulations to Kevin Register for the right answer.
Or maybe its just a maraca.
i believe the right answer has already been given by kevin on the second guess... there goes another t-shirt.
You hold it by the handle, of course, and listen through the large earpiece. At this stage, Bell hadn't quite worked out the microphone part on bottom.
It was common before the days of automation to run a string when planting a field to keep the rows straight.
Congratulations to Kevin Register, who won this round of the game!
I quite enjoy some of the wild guesses here. You guys are a hoot!