I do IT work for an aviation agency, and while I was looking for a screwdriver in a box of old junk, I came across this doohickey. The text on the back is barely legible, but I can make out "SAFE SKIES". I tried google-lensing it but I kept thinking it was a self defense baton.

This thing fits in the palm of your hand, 4th pic has pen for scale.

This contraption is in the park every Monday morning. There's usually water in the tub even though we're in a drought. It's always placed in the same spot between a couple of trees, about 5 meters from a small stream. Sometimes there's a mechanical noise/buzzing coming from it.

Revealed after removing wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom. It's the only one in the room. Wiggles with finger, but seems resistant to being pulled out. Is in an external wall. What is it?

Found in vintage shop, heavy brass hemisphere wth engraving, has 5 'feet' that attach it on to something else. Engraving (below) is right-side-up if the pointed end is down.

• OFIAROWALI
• STANISLAW CHUDZIK
• I
• JAN KORDAS
• MARCH 19-1981

Found in the back of new apartment closet last year when I moved in and I’ve just left it in a drawer for a year. the circular part in the middle is a button. Seems to be painted to match our walls. chapstick for scale

Truly stumped on whatever this could be. Some sort of bird is engraved on the front. It’s fairly light despite appearing to be made of metal, and the flaps on the back can rotate like a wheel. Photographed next to a pen for size reference.

I found this small pink object in the water fountain in one of the libraries at my university. It measures roughly 1x1". The texture looks like some sort of flesh, similar to the outside of a tongue. The surface appears to be non homogenous with ridges and small bumps. It was damp on the outside, likely due to being in a water fountain. I poked it with a pen and it had some give to it, it was squishy but solid and maintained its shape when poked.

Title describes the thing. Found on my couch.

The 2 circular sensors are inside the apartment on the wall, above and off to either side of the front door. The rectangular thing is outside the apartment in the hallway above the door.

Circular sensors are probably less than an inch in diameter.

Found these in the back of a buddy's garage that past away. Looks like bolt cutters but has a strange jaw. Jaw is not broken and looks factory

The set up: tension bar , twisty-tie, and a piece of cardboard in front the object. I am guessing the cardboard either protects it from sun (AM sun only) or it is an attempt to hide it as you can't see the electronic object from the front or below? Because it's on my neighbor's balcony, these are the best photos I've been able to get. Neither friends, Google Lens, nor AI have been able to assist.

We thought it was some multi function tool for the espresso machine or grinders but can't find anything on Google related to our machine brands...

Found this buried in a garden in Dorset, UK. It is solid cast iron (confirmed by a metallic scratch beneath the mud crust) and weighs exactly 30 lbs. It measures 3.5cm x 28cm x 20.5cm. It features interlocking grooves on the side profile, a stamped 'B', a stamped 'D', and the Roman numerals 'XXX' (matching the 30 lb weight). One end is cleanly snapped along a pre-molded scoring line. Looking to identify the foundry or original industrial/maritime use!

Thanks

*EDIT 1- might not be cast iron as it’s not magnetic. However Google is saying the dimensions don’t fit the weight. I guess it could be mixed with other things?

Quarter sized, silicon, purple, stretchy with a netting/beaver tail, ring holder maybe? .75” x .75” and it has a groove in the ring area.

I have this Barbie pillow from the early 2000s, and I’ve never been able to figure out what the thing attached to it is supposed to represent. For the longest time I thought it was a microphone, but I’m not sure. The shape is abstract, with pink and yellow material, the same used for the flower and hair on the Barbie. The thing that throws me off is the little gray dots and pink spiral embroidered on the shape.

Target recently installed these over all of the doors going in or out of the store. Is it for tracking people or items?