Claude Shannon’s remote?
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It’s part of my EDC.
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Didn’t even have to click it and the song was already in my head.
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It’s a schooner!
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Its on of those space laser control buttons. now with target reset!
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It’s probably Occam’s famous razor, then. The electric model.
Actually, I suspect it is a device that either reverses the polarity or crosses the streams. Or maybe both.
(And it looks quite tactile but not very ‘tactical’ so probably not an EDC.)
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Damn! Beat me to it!
Stud finder?
Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner… it’s a Sailboat.
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Laser tag toy?
Integumentary integrating ionization-damage sensor/annunciator!
The plastic bubble looks like a PV-cell for an all-sky optical sensor.
So I’m gonna guess …sun-tan ultraviolet timer, that actually measures your total dose, and gives an alarm when you need to flip over! (If not, then I’ve just had a GENIUS IDEA, and can start marketing such products right now!)
Never forget, UV is ionizing radiation, produces radiation burns, and causes cancer. (UV is not PENETRATING radiation, but just try using a geiger-counter tube that has a non-opaque window. UV photons “ionize,” releasing electrons, driving your GM counter crazy! Just how many Seivets of sunlight doseage has your skin accumulated?! )
Is this the Great Reset button they speak of in Q drops?
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The OG Paedometer. (Which is also a…)
Stud finder permitting marking/scoring center of stud (or electrics, or iron waste pipe, copper or PVC plumbing (lights up white or green or yellow-brown,) depending on set) where measured.
Parent monitor for caring for the overheating family XBoxX for warmer climes? (Or, fetish.)
Metaclaymore. (Inner Front Towards Enemy.)
OG Soviet Meeting Timer. No LEDs, nuclear powered. If meeting goes too fast, more red lights come on. At the end of the meeting you put a rope in it so it can pull itself to the next meeting.
Electronic de-Puja Worship. If five vaguely close dedications happen at once though, it shouts ‘You sank my battleship!’ and everyone has to restart.
Rope belaying trainer?!?
Boba tea drinking contest ranking device.
My First Stargate
Tolerance of the No Fidgeting Workplace’s first No Tolerance Policy tour in arbitration, permitting training in the no fidgeting ways. Device is a one-off 4’ wide and full of honey maple burrs.
Food Pellet Delivery Unit at XBox Interns LLC (WA).
Schedule II bedside storage at XBox Memory Care Inc. (WA).
Design for a unit which requires activation, which you run over to pick up. Patent Application #2020-9429082315073.
Plumbus destruction authenticator.
Weyland-Yutani Crab Trap M.2
Hermit Crab sex lure
Antioch BART Stop 2028 by HOK
American knockoff of the Singaporean ‘Ass Candy’ novelty candy packaging
5 flashing light sensitivity triggers and one for claustrophobia, Psychologist Metrics Group, LLC
Reusable soup bowl with EtOH self-sterilization feature
Gold Cube 1/3 size of previous Gold Cube, M.2978 to please Certain Sun God
CRT for Millenials
Desk Phone for Millenial Market
Doge Bank for New Credit Union Members
Kia Soul Concept 2032
Generic cis/LGBTQ+ Prophylactic Or Contraceptive 2032
new more memorable Standard Kilogram 2032
3D Printer Mileage Trainer Object for Meatboi
Compartment syndrome cyanoacrylate fix pak for users of "
herniated spleen corrected by robotic surgery
Unauthorized Bread®
Vanta Grey #2
Ark Miami (acrylic hazing Mass Production edition)
Fat Cell of CoV-2 Vaccinated Person (NoVax Labs’ Micrograph (KS), ®2028)
BeyoncѼ Autobot Transformers 2032 Toy
Kirkland green packaging 20-pack for Spam; round knife must be inserted for avail
Chihuahuas in 2032
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I don’t know, looks like a portable frobnicator to me…
It’s a history eraser button.
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Looks to me like a turbo encabulator. I think that baseplate is preframulated amulite. It’s possible, though, that it could be the opposite.
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Can you guess what this gadget does?
I’m pretty sure boingboing is responsible for educating me that the answer to such headlines is generally a resounding “no”.
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I was going to suggest a Simon game. That has the same layout.
Owning one is cheating, though. Referee!!
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I’ve been using an old microwave nipple heater and an extra 10sec can be a killer
