What is it? Game 111 - Neatorama

Here's this week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog. Can you tell us what this strange tool is used for? The first correct guess AND the funniest guess win this awesome Ice Invaders Ice Cube Tray from the Neatorama Shop.

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guessed as you'd like. Please post no URL or web links - doing so will forfeit your entry.

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

Update 10/9/09 - the answer is: A clockwork roasting jack, used to turn meat while it was roasted over the fireplace. Congratulations to PaulS who guessed right and to Abe Normal who suggested that it was a wind up grenade!

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OMG, I can't beleive how close I actualy was with "steampunk turkey baster"!

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Definitely an old school tattoo gun. Possibly the same one used to give abraham lincoln his "Thug Life " tattoo

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It's an early version of a rectal thermometer. There was an almost identical oral thermometer, and the only way to tell one from the other was the taste.

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Gee, Miss Cellania, how did you ever come up with such an original comment?

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It looks like a wind-up prayer wheel to me

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Unfortunately tech companies (etc) regularly patent things not because they are possible or because they are working on them but for other reasons (eg: to profit if someone works it out, to block others from developing things, as wild "just in case we need it in 30 years", etc). Just registering a patent means almost nothing about the future chance of things happening. Because the patent system is broken.

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Apple develops a lot of things, and that's why I have a android phone

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This has too much potential for abuse. Imagine beaming images into someone's eyes while he/she is operating heavy equipment or controlling a vehicle - or luring somebody into harm's way. Fortunately, there are bound to be countermeasures.

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