What is it? Game 122

Woot! It's our first What is it? game in the New Year, so let's make this one good! The always awesome What is it? Blog brings us this gruesome looking contraption - can you guess what it is for?

Let's have more prizes: the first correct guess and the top 3 funniest but wrong guesses will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop.

Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the coment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URL or weblinks - doing so will forfeit your entry. Entries are valid until the correct answer is posted at the What is it? Blog.

More clues at the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 1/13/10 - Sorry for the late update (it's been a crazy week with the server crash and all). Congrats to Doug Fallon for the correct guess, Declan ("the devastator"), Digma03 ("Iron Man's whisk") and kminks ("Medieval Purple Nurple device") for the funniest guesses. I apologize to everyone who entered their guesses only to have the server ate them during the crash.

It's a "crystal lift", used for slightly squeezing
watch crystals for insertion into the bezel.

The first one I saw, however, inspired visions of a certain "rite of passage" practiced by some religions, involving adolescent boys...
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Really? Its obviously an prototype new model of a barrel for a gravity gun. The old one only had 3 prongs, this one has 16! imagine the marketing pitch (now with over 500% more prong power)
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It is a Post-coital Retention Extractor, for those times when, upon reaching the peak, the woman overzealously clamps down and retains the male member. While more common in the insect world, it has been recorded in humans well over 2 times throughout history.
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It's a circular lock pick. For the types of locks you see on cola machines. You set the pins one at a time, then screw down the back bit to save the pick locations and use it as a temporary key.
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This is the gripper claw from a 1950s Soviet claw prize machine, called "?????????? ???????? ??????????? ?????? ??? ????? ??????", or "Secure the Fuzzy Stuffed Cow for the Glory of the Motherland!" Like most Western prize machines, the prize compartment contained stuffed animals. However, a lucky ??????? or ??????? could drop a few rubles in this machine and hopefully win ration coupons good for bags of turnips or beets, small bottles of vodka, books of tractor production figures, or even an official Red Army surplus bayonet!
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If Megaman were to defeat a carnival claw game in an epic battle and then after crushing it, he assimilated its powers into him, this is what his power arm would look like.

I can really see them using this in the next Megaman game.
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In the year 20XX war will erupt on the surface of the planet. but this will be no ordinary war, for it will be fought with GIANT ROBOTS. Thats right, GIANT ROBOTS so large that they can only be talked about in all capital letters. After many years of war the super supreme ruler of the planet shall be destroyed in a battle with the resistance. The battle was so hard and vigorous it left nothing but the hand form his battle suit in tact. after the war the hand was moved to the museum of supreme history. the hand itself is in fact 386 feet high and 1586 feet long. the picture above is of that same hand, and it lives on as a testament to the fight for good in the galaxy.
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Technically, it's called a "watch crystal lift," but others have correctly pegged it's use, so I'm hardly the first. It doesn't look like a delicate instrument, but it kind of is.
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It's a device for removing crystals from wristwatches. The claws grab the edges of the crystal and the watch crystal can then be pulled out without damaging the case.
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