Gizmo Quiz

What is that thing?

[dcheney]

Ok, hopefully this will work (first time quiz host :-)

What's it do?

The Gizmo [catholic-hierarchy.org]

FYI, it has nothing to do with the site upon which the image is hosted :-)

[D_Blackwell]

Some sort of lighting? Medical?

[dcheney]

Not lighting.
Not medical.

[dcheney]

Okay, time for a major hint :-)

Same Gizmo - very different view [catholic-hierarchy.org]

[balam]

Some sort of LASER?

[dcheney]

Nope, no laser - no light involved at all. Although it wouldn't be terribly useful in complete darkness.

[dcheney]

A couple more hints:

* the photo was taken from roughly the perspective of an average height person (i.e., they were standing next to it and snapped a pic the usual way)
* the device is at roughly the correct height and orientation for normal usage
* it is unique for this type of device due to "spin"

[werty]

Is it a tennis ball/baseball launcher?

[dcheney]

Bingo!

UC DAVIS Automated Full Degree-of-Freedom Baseball Pitching Machine [mae.ucdavis.edu]

[balam]

Dang...

I've been thinking propulsion for awhile now, then I got to thinking about t-shirts... You know, those "t-shirt cannon" things "they" have at sporting events?

Just goes to show you should run with any silly guess...

[dcheney]

Or at least ask questions to gain hints ;-)

[trillianjedi]

Congrats werty [webmasterworld.com]!

[Webwork]

Okay Werty, now how on earth did you come to that conclusion?

Fess up.

You been hanging out in physics labs lately?

Dating one of the Williams sisters?

That hunk of metal and wires and tubes screams "weapon" more than tennis ball launcher to a feeble mind like mine.

[werty]

Webwork, the two clues that worked for me were:

* the device is at roughly the correct height and orientation for normal usage
* it is unique for this type of device due to "spin"