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By: What Is It? #3 « The Merseyside Skeptics Society

What Is It? #3 « The Merseyside Skeptics Society — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:34:34 +0000

[...] week we showed you this photo and asked you what it was. The correct answer was – a burner from a DVD RW drive. We [...]

By: Jon D

Jon D — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:35:44 +0000

Three wires – Transistor?

By: Marsh

Marsh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:25:56 +0000

Ah, cheers for correcting me, Prof – been a busy week for us here at the MSS, what with the whole attempted-non-suicide and all. But happy to be corrected!

Also, nobody’s quite got it yet…!

By: Gareth Binks

Gareth Binks — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:47:31 +0000

I mentioned on facebook i thought it was plastic with adhesive on the back….I’m probably wrong! lol

By: tony

tony — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:19:50 +0000

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17101766?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=33
read em and weep….

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:40:00 +0000

Yes

It is an optical microscope and the image has been cropped as to not give the ‘game away’. Marsh never reads his email’s his degree was in pidgin english anyways. Regards Prof

By: MossMan

MossMan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:16:09 +0000

I see wires soldered to each side of the slab-thing, with some kind of film underneath and another wire along the back. There seem to be a row of these slabs and it looks a bit dusty or dirty…

I would guess some kind of sensor (thermal, stress/strain, acoustic), phone keyboard or piezo-electric speaker.

And that isn’t taken with an “electon” microscope, it’s just a plain old optical image…

By: Gittins

Gittins — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:18:49 +0000

It’s the triple blades of a very well used Gillette mach 3 turbo razor.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:57:46 +0000

Has he left the lens cap on?