What Is It? game 233 - Neatorama

Here it is, our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Tell us what this object is, if you know. If you don't, make a wild guess!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. We'll have two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

There are more pictures of this thing at the What Is It? Blog. Have fun and good luck!

Update: there were a lot of good guesses, but so far no one was been able to determine exactly what the mystery object is, including the What Is It? blog -and the original manufacturer! Thanks for many good leads, but none have been verified. The funniest answer was from Jared, who surmised that this is a modified vacuum pump, with a hole added as "a rudimentary eyeball extraction device. It’s really the only possible explanation." That's worth a t-shirt! Find the answers to the other items of the week at the What Is It? blog.

Comments (58)

Or a Separator device in a pressure system

Where's Higgs Boson? XL

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It's a Siphon.

Where's Higgs Boson? XL

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It's a cloud chamber for visualizing cosmic rays, gamma rays and the like.

Unpredictable Swing VOter, Med ladies natural

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Well, I did an image search on the photo above and the first returned result was a toilet, so I'm pretty sure that must be what you have there.

Exterminate Me - Large - Navy

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It's a bird-proof squirrel feeder

Unpredictable swing voter, small (natural)

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Hey, you found my bong! I’ve been wondering what happened to it. Thanks! (Be careful or I’ll include you in my plans. 2xl)

Sorry for the double post, I forgot the size.

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Hey, you found my bong! I’ve been wondering what happened to it. Thanks! (Be careful or I’ll include you in my plans. 2x)

Sorry for the double post - for the size.

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Hey, you found my bong! I've been wondering what happened to it. Thanks! (Be careful or I'll include you in my plans.)

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This is an Ectoplasmic Entity Containment Chamber, clearly of military grade, for use with the Proton Pack, Mark I. This one is a practice/training unit, thus the hole in the collection vessel.

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Why, it's a wasp trap. (And, I'm not emptying it.)

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Gasoline filter assembly. I'm guessing from some piece of farm equipment. No Prey, No Pay size: Large

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It is a nestbox designed by the same guy who designed this house:

http://trendzona.com/interior-and-furniture/10/how-to-make-the-house-bright-and-airy-part-1.html

All glass walls, a balcony and a chimney... and a nice round entry... and the best anyone can see if the nestbox is inhabited or not... and the construction may be cleaned easily as all components are disch washer proof...

Slugs Are Just Homeless Snails 2X

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It Could also be a liquid trap... for a vakuum device.

The hole could then include a plug with a liqid sensor, to prevent vakuum damage after flooding the trap.

Never Grow Up m ladie’s fit in navy…

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Simple!

its a display window for a lotto machine.

Thank you.

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I believe that is an airlock device for drilling into a hollow object or a solid containing trapped gases, without allowing intermixing with the exterior atmosphere.

Schrodinger's cat in XXL, if you please.

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It is a fart catcher. Line up the large hole betweeen cheaks. Let her rip…and voila, a trapped biscuit. Attach an airhose and share your bacterial creation with others. Great for afterparties.

woops....Bannannosecond T XL

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It is a fart catcher. Line up the large hole betweeen cheaks. Let her rip...and voila, a trapped biscuit. Attach an airhose and share your bacterial creation with others. Great for afterparties.

Deal with it self inking stamp.

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It's the exoskeleton from a molting R2 droid.

Better idiot, med.

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birdfeeder

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It's a suction machine for surgery.

Never grow up women's sm

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Finally, the scientific breakthrough we've all been waiting for! Hybrid technology has struck at last where it matters and united the bong and the hamster ball - rodent-keeping smoking enthusiasts worldwide rejoice! ...but not as much as their hamsters, I guess...

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I Survived the Large Hadron Collider, Ladies fit S, please

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Hey all,

I'm the guy who owns this "thing". I actually received an email from the manufacturer, Gaertner, saying they "have no idea what this is". So, the mystery continues. Love all the guesses and thanks.

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anesthesia machine soda lime chamber

Love is a Biohazard regular t, size XL

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It's a joke sippy cup for scientists

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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A very important part of Animal Planet's new reality show "Glass Birdhouse". Note the central air conditioning duct work on the top.

Powered by Caffeine XL

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A Ronco Pocket Absinthe Dispenser

Bread on Fire (L and Grey)

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High pressure flatus removal and containment vessel. The hole in the glass was merely added to render the device useless for display purposes.

Chemists do it periodically XXL light blue

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Its a sausage maker!
The bottom screws on to the meat grinder (so turn the object sideways). The hole is for the insertion of a wooden pestle to palpate the meat and also where you can add spices. The meat is then forced through the small cylinders, which are of varying diameters to make two meat sausage sizes which are then fed into casing. Looks tasty to me!

Biologists Evolved to Do It Better, L, Navy

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It's the Large Hadron Collider prototype.

I'd love the Battle damage t-shirt, Ash grey , M

Thanks

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It's a penis pump for the collegeman with roommate:

"What are you doing man?!"

"What? Smoking a bowl!"

"Why is your penis in it?"

"Dude, I'm SO high"

*I'm Giving Her All She's Got in small.

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Gaertner SPATIAL Filter Assembly

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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air filter for a vacuum pump.

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it's a filter assembly for a vacuum pump.

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i believe it is the glass part of a gas lamp
used on a pole for outdoor use
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d hesse

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Dear Gaertner Scientific,

Hi, I am submitting a photo of a device that I would like the name and function of.
Please reply ASAP. a T-shirt depends on it.

Thanks,

Steve Pauk

Paddle Faster - I Hear Banjo Music XL

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@meiao stole my answer. :(

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It is a wiener pump, for width rather than length.
Hello My Name is McLovin T-shirt XL

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It's a voluntary firefly lantern.

overate,xl,grey

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Ooops - - I meant Romulan ale (I got mixed up with Saurian brandy...
Also, Schrodinger's cat dead and/or alive shirt male XL black.

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It is also possible to use this device for A SUCTION CURETTAGE ABORTION that is why the large opening for a large suction tube to observe the incoming body fluids.

Paddle faster I hear banjos XL

Craig Clayton

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Dollar Store penis pump

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It is a high-tech beer bong from the future - - when seen in episode 19 of the original Star Trek series, Scotty referred to it as his "Romulan brandy disruptor" and used it to transport Romulan brandy directly into his bloodstream.

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I expect it to be a device usable as gas washing bottle..

Slugs Are Just Homeless Snails 2X

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It is also very similiar to a Wangensteen suction device that is used to suck chest cavaties of excess fluid.

Paddle faster I hear banjos XL

Craig Clayton

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birdhouse!

Star Trek Command Uniform T-Shirt, L

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I believ it is a early Pleurevac type of water sealed chest tube draining device, it is used to drain chests of excess liquid.

Paddle faster I hear banjos Xl

Craig Clayton

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A steampunk juicemaker.

X-large, navy, womens Hippo Potty Mouth.

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@ Ladybugs, I agree....haha

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Vintage gas spectrometer

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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I guess it is a filter assembly. I expect the filter element is missing and the hole in the glass is for connecting a safety valve. The glass allows a user to decide if the filter has to be replaced or not.

Never Grow Up m ladie’s fit in navy...

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@ Cristal, Great minds think alike! We'll see if we are correct.

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Looks like a vacuum chamber to me, although someone seems to have added a hole, my guess is they have adapted the vacuum chamber into a rudimentary eyeball extraction device. It's really the only possible explanation.

(Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton Large)

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Pollarizing Spectrometer

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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LADYBUGS!!!!

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it is an interferometer.

X-LARGE, WOMENS, NAVY, HIPPO POTTY MOUTH

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Interferometer

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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But to take a guess, maybe an old gas lamp for a microscope?

overate,xl,grey

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Not sure what it is but I'm pretty sure what use I'd have made of it in high school.

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