EX-Z3
ƒ/2.6
5.8 mm
1/125
Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
21 responses to “What’s That? (42)”
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Aaaah! Get it away! I hate needles! Oh. Wait. Not that badly..
By the miniscus on the buble, I’d say that’s a fairly unviscous fluid in the syringe. The clear disk is actually a wheel you turn by grasping the knob at the right side of the picture.
By looking at the thickness of the lines compared to the size of the tube, I’d say it’s 3/8ths or 1/2 inch across, so a good sized thing…
That is weird, is what it is! Must be a nano-particle delivery system.
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Our friend and guesser Rocketeer will probably not be here right now because he underwent a surgery on Tuesday. Hope everything went out fine, and that he will be back with us soon. =)
For this reason I will play his part for a little while and contribute with something he usually does: The reading of the exif file:
The distance from the object was 10cm (4 in)
The image is cropped.
Data says that the cam hasn´t been flipped neither rotated to take the picture (the position of the bubble on top may show it too)Now, I would just add that the circular glass with the black border has no magnification as it reflects exactly the back part of the object in front. But the little circle inside it, do have an important magnification to the point that it flips upside down the reflexion. This reminds me of: The glasses of watches that also give the date have a little circled or squared piece of the glass inside which has magnification to show the date number better. Now, if this is it, then the tube in front is really small…
I figure this while writing: Puzzleman had a little trouble on his Sunday moutain ride. Let´s say that his watch suffered some ‘inconveniences’ there, i.e.: its glass went off. So here we have a picture of the dettached glass and a device filled with glue that he was using to stick it back to the watch.
That was enough delirium for tonight.
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Oh, dear. Yes, hope Rocketman is getting rested and recovered!
BUT, this thing at hand. Well, that thing below looks like a swing open top, so maybe the syringe is glue to attach it to a jar mouth.
Ohwait! I’m having deja vu! There’s a fairly long tube on the end of that thing… and it’s really a one inch syringe. The disk is a crank to put down the plunger? Maybe oil, maybe epoxy?
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Some interesting analyses…. I see that there are more clues in the image than I first thought. Welcome to the rabbit hole Robbie1.
I should mention that this is one thing. If I combined unrelated objects, I would disclose it. (and there’s no photoshop, as always =)
So the syringe has been properly identified, but it is not an independent thing.
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This reminds me delivery pumps, with the wheel to control the delivery rate from the syringe. Probably not for medical use, as the bubble could be harmful. Same impression from the "dirt" on the upper left part on the rubber (?)
The disposable syringe used haven’t any numerals for graduation, cheap material, I would say for chemicals rather then drugs. One can’t be certain, but the wheel don’t seem to be part of a high precision mechanism, so I suppose that there should be some "missing", probably cropped part. But we see what may be a computer monitor reflection.Let’s go for a delivery pump, computer controlled, to deliver some chemical for a synthesis process.
I suppose that the products in the syringe and in the container with the small bubble are different. -
L’inspecteur! It’s good to have you and your magic glasses on the case.
Yes, the photo is cropped, but there is nothing substantially different blocked from view. In other words, there is not a computer or major piece of equipment out of view. It is just more of the same and some small tubing that you can’t see.
iv0: good to have your perspective as well. You are correct that the small circle is a bubble.
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Hi, just passing by, this made me very curious!
I’d say the wheel controls the position of the syringe. It could slide on a dented rail, to move the syringe up and down (along the rail) to refill small containers repetitively.
The round glass with the buble should work a as a positioning aid for the ensemble, but I’m clueless about how would that work. -
Maximo: great to see you here on flickr, and what a strong puzzle entre. You nailed the description of the syringe, wheel and rail on the left (but not its purpose). You can see the hints for that in the reflection in the center.
To further perplex, let me say that OldCola and iv0 should have personal perspectives on this puzzle. 😉
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Oh, Oh, Oh Bingo BenODen!!! I hope my OldCola & iv0 hint wasn’t too strong, looking at their photo icons. =)
This is an early prototype of user-adjustable eyeglasses from Adaptive Eyecare, a U.K. based company seeking to provide inexpensive glasses for the billion people that lack needed vision correction (according to World Health Organization estimates).
Using elastic mylar lenses filled with a highly refractive silicone oil, they created $5 glasses that the user can adjust for each eye, without an optometrist or expensive lens grinding infrastructure. One product fits all, and can even be shared.
I found that they work quite well if you don’t mind the geek chic look. =) They have versions where the syringes can be removed and plugged, and another version where the fluid and slider have been integrated into the sidearms of the glasses.
Special credit to Billy the Kid… who knows his goats and sheep…. In the notes, he identified the while background as plush cotton or wool. It is plush cotton meant to imitate wool. I used the back of one of the toy sheep in my office as a white table. Billy also correctly identified the blue sky reflection in the notes.
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Done. I was adding new input, but there is no need.
CONGRATS BEN!!!! that a was really cool guessing.
And I am happy to see OC back =D
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It’s exciting to finally place that image you had going through your brain.
It came to me when I figured out how to dismiss the bubble’s shadow, and suddenly realized where I’d seen the syringe with the tube coming out. Then I looked at the reflection and saw that yes yes, that looks right.
Good Puzzle Steve! Thanks!
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