Can you identify any of this?
I recently got a nice little tchotchke from my friends at National Semiconductor the other day at a presentation on their new display drivers, a powered travel speaker set with a standard headphone jack to plug into any music or media device. I usually give these kinds of things to co-workers but thought it would be even nicer to figure out a way to give this kind of stuff to you.
Whoever can identify the most stuff from the picture above of the top of my TV set will win the travel speakers plus a couple of other things that are currently gathering dust around the office. If this kind of thing turns out to be popular I’ll do it with all this stuff I get at shows and such. (I’ll give you one tip – the picture is that of my two daughters.)
Lava Lamp
Warthog from Halo
Kick ass Back to the Future car
Tony Raines Nascar
D-Link router
2 Alligator clip holders
barbed wire
old processor
Superman pin
Slut pin
A near and dear photo of your daughters
bottom half of an old bat-mobile
dts clip
shape-able toy man
some sort of sea rock
toy PM bus (is that from a drug co?)
Chip and ribbon from inside a calculator?
Correction. Linksys router
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes corrected
yes but points for what kind (hint: related to “rock”)
yes but points for what kind
yes
yes but points for origin
yes
yes (not bottom half, but parts of roof missing)
not clip
yes but vague
no
yes and no (points for origin)
no
Ross’ Four Point barbed wire?
Acrobot office toy?
Is that a model of the Alien face hugger on the rock?
6,
yup.
The bus is the “PMBus” or Power Management Bus (bus plays on the serial I2C bus…) PMBus is an open standard power supply managment and configuration std.
Yes, I am a total geek…
😉
8,
Points to Mike!
BTW, it isn’t a rock.
Reminds a person of the author / filmmaker / actor Woody Allen in the film Sleeper
The social scientists have a number of questions about artifacts from the past which are a mystery to them – including “chattering teeth” and a Playboy bunny foldout.
These items and their uses are a mystery to these learned authorities
There is at least identifiable a “lava lamp”
The item on the left side is a Linkyx router of some sort – a wireless router as it has antennas
heh, I’m alarmed I can make out that cpu’s make from the pin side
It that rock looking thing part of the Berlin wall?
That is an AMD 64 939 pin proc!
>> shape-able toy man
It’s Gyro’s assistent Little Helper. There is also a TV/VCR on the picture.
I cant believe no one has said anything about that face hugger on the rock nor the back to the future car and the old tv series batman batmobile.
That purple lapel pin with the “M” early promo freebie for Adobe Pagemaker?
17,
Not a DLP, but close.
18,
Nope.
16,
All three have been mentioned.
God this is a slow day, I’m going back and watch the Country line dancers do In A Gadda Da Vida some more.
The Slut pin is from a musical called Avenue Q.
22,
Close, but it’s an off-broadway play.
23, what do you mean, close? It is from Avenue Q. I saw them for sale in the lobby when I went to the play in London. If it’s not from Avenue Q, then someone is ripping someone else off.
24,
It’s from Slut, the Musical:
http://broadwayworld.com/showinfo.cfm?showid=1011
25, well I’ll be damned. I can’t find a picture of the Avenue Q button, but it looks exactly like that one. It’s based on Lucy the Slut, one of the characters in the show.
26,
Stolen idea?
BTW, the WINNERS are:
#1: Undissembled – speakers
#2: Raff – LED demo board
#3: NSILMike – 1-Gig USB flash
honorable mention: RTaylor – used (but functional) 64-bit single-core processor
All three winners get a hard copy of my book, Cyberchild. The runner-up gets a PDF copy.
All winners email me @yahoo and I’ll mail you your stuff.
Answers:
Linksys wireless router
“PMBus” digital power promotional bus
Lava lamp
DLP-sponsored Raines NASCAR
LCD microdisplay with flex cable
Toy man
Face Hugger
Berlin Wall Chunk
German Border barbed wire
AMD dual-core 64-bit processor
DTS-sponsored CD-package opener
Back to the Future Delorean
Metropolitan Museum of Art day pin
Daughters
Slut the Musical pin
Superman pin
Extruded plastic
Warthog
Batmobile
Desk helicopter
Let me know if this was worth the effort and I’ll do it again when I get some more stuff to give away.