W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the always mind-boggling What is it? blog. Can you guess what this strange device is used for?
Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL or web links - let others play. No prize this week, so you're playing for bragging rights only.
For more clues and other guessing fun, please visit the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 5/1/09 - The answer is: An Electraply quack medical device, according to the manual, it's a "pulsating machine used on the body for its therapeutic action and for administering electrical massage," patent number 1,789,758. That was too easy! Congrats to jmjrdrave who got it first (and to Jared for a more detailed answer) ;)
Children of the world rejoice! Inexpensive mess-free ice cream awaits you this summer!
Ha ha, just kidding. I'll piddle my life's savings away in court for another decade and die penniless clutching a naked Barbie doll in an alley in Levittown, New York.
Y'all can bow to the neuroscientist now :p
And it's not mine, Baby, I swear it!
This one is, of course, the Deluxe model which can be rolled away from the wall when using the latest space age dust sucking machine (pre-Hoover).
Well it might be.
Not pictured: see the little hole between the handle and the bomb? That's where the safety pin goes.
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