Quote: Original post by Kest
Does anyone know what this thing is?

Looks like continuum transfunctioner to me...

Quote: Under the bottom battery is a magnet, which makes the whole thing magnetic. When you screw it together with batteries, one of the three symbols lights up blue, and blinks on and off.

Then again, it might be a Turing machine. Magnetic read/write heads, with 3 bit state.

I would be careful. It's obviously making the autofocus in your camera malfunction. It could be doing something even worse.

On the other hand, it does look like something that fell off a complicated and uncomfortable-looking adult toy I saw in passing in a store window once.

Quote: Original post by Bregma
On the other hand, it does look like something that fell off a complicated and uncomfortable-looking adult toy I saw in passing in a store window once.

I can't say I've ever seen such an item in a window display, and always assumed you would have to go inside such stores to see their wares. Are you sure you were 'just passing' by the store?

It might be an IR strobe/signaling device -shrugs- the other lights that are there....when turned on...can you see them through night vision? lol