Today's collaboration with What is It? blog brings you this strange object - can you guess what it is? First one to guess correctly will win a FREE Neatorama T-Shirt!
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Update 8/3/07 - the answer is:
Fiber optic magnifier, made from over 15,000 tapered fibers. Created by heating the central region of a cylindrical bundle of fused optical fibers, pulling it into an hourglass glass shape, and then cutting it in the middle. Lots of drawings can be found on the patent page, number 5,600,751. These are also made to be used as part of night vision scopes.Congratulations to chris #21 who got it exactly right. Close guess by libon #4, but I was looking for an exact match.
some kind of handle
Right ?
Really?
I think it's a concave surface on the top to fit on the eye, with the extension on the back to partially block the eyelids from closing and to fit the light. With this mechanism you'll maybe be able to keep your victim from sleeping (due to the intense light) and ultimately dry out the eyes leading to permanent damage of the eyes.
see? that wasn't so hard.
"Uncle Benjamin, where did you bury the money?"
'oooo-ooooo, I'mmmmm deeeead, ooooo'
"Its me your nephew Charley, where is the money uncle Benjamin?
'ooooooooo, its daaaaaark heeere, oooooooo'
And so on.
i saw something like it only a pyramid shaped one. below deck on old ships it was dark. and this may be one of those things that worked like a mini sky light. you put the narrow end above to catch the light and the wide end to disperse it below.
actually, maybe a small coffee table, or end table of some sort?
(1050 is a lug used to connect wires to buss bars in a breaker panel)