What is It? Game 25. - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange, spiky contraption. Can you guess what it is? For more clues, please visit What is It? Blog.

No T-shirt this week, you're playing for bragging rights only (Congrats to Chief-Ten-Bears and Randall who won last week's game)

Update 6/16/07: It's a polyhedral sundial - congrats to laini #1 who got it right.

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It's a sundial.

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Now, THAT'S an instrument of torture!

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it's a perpetual calendar, a sun and moon clock and calendar

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Early orbital weather device.

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One of those things that's atop an air-control tower. An early version.

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yayo [deleted - please no name calling] is right.

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The annual Death Star soccer game trophy.

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It is an Omnimopometer, used for transducing intersteller space prior to the discovery of Edwerkel's unsolveable quotient. While many oldsters still swear by the 'peter'it was found to have a base 6 flaw which had the alarming effect of reversing the hearing of one traveler in 16,000,000. I had one made of malachite.

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no fair - i used to work at the adler planetarium. it's a sundial.

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knitting tool, for sure

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Its a Tesla conductive Generator.

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This is the Grand Prize Trophy for an extreme hacky sack game variation. You must keep the "ball" in the air whilst kicking it at your opponents in hopes of impaling their feet/limbs/etc., to knock them out of competition. Extra points are awarded for neat tricks and/or castrating your opponent.

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It's a note holder. Can hold up to 11 separate piles of impaled notes.

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It's the camera used for Google street views.

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dang, i thought it was one of those static ball things that made your hair stand on end.......or a precursor to the dalek

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Geodesic Dome

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Space mine from the Neutral Zone. Sundial.

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Automatic banana peeler

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a back scratcher?

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I think LARPers use one of those to roll for damage.

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it is twelve sided, so possibly not a calendar, not a single month sun dial, but a sun dial with a different face for each respective month? (I'm not sure about the bottom, which appears to be now mounted, but possibly two months in the year have identical solar what evers?

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Proof that barbarians (as a class) have brass "ones."

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An AD&D trophy?

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A device used as a base and pedestal around which one can mount and construct large decorative floral arrangements.

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It is the business end of a lightning/ spark generator, used for testing Radio-frequency interference.

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Simple. It's metal.

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Aw, it was too easy for you guys! Guessed right by laini #1 - it's a polyhedral sundial.

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I think it's a model of a Carbon molecule. I don't know anything about molecules or atoms or anything like that, but this was the very first thought that popped into my head.

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LOL. So now I see that someone already got it right.

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