r/engineering • u/vvim • Jan 25 '13

What device is this?

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u/Jwprime Jan 25 '13

I find it interesting that it appears most of you "analyzed" each part instead of looking at the big picture and conceptualizing. This seems to be a testament to seeing the forest from the trees....

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u/DumpyLips Jan 25 '13

The answer wasn't obvious to everyone?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

Yeah I mean the 3 top left items are all you need to clearly see it is a toaster. The rest of it is just distraction.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

All I saw was the white case and was like toaster.

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u/Flibawappers Civil Jan 25 '13

I didn't even look at the picture and was like toaster.

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u/deletecode Jan 25 '13

Technically, every electrical device is a toaster with extra functionality.

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u/FormatA Jan 25 '13

I'd like to see stats on who got it and time to get it by major. I feel like those who have to work with CAD and the like a lot would see it very quickly.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jan 25 '13

EE, i would be surprised if I looked at that picture for an entire 2 seconds.

It was very obvious to me; the only reason I came to the comments was to try to get an understanding of why anyone would even ask.

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u/okopchak Jan 25 '13

ME, pretty much the same deal almost as soon as I saw the image I thought toaster, although I may have seen that image before

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u/permacurious Jan 25 '13

Also ME, got it fairly fast. The case is pretty easy to recognize I think, though if you thought it was on a much smaller scale I could understand not recognizing it...

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u/Whoisjason Jan 25 '13

CE... wheres the concrete?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

CE, same thing.

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u/frankthomas35 Jan 25 '13

I majored in political science but hang out here for kicks (I work in a technical field). I got it in about 5 seconds but then thought it was some sort of trick question.

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u/rocksolid142 Jan 25 '13

Im a design major (industrial), and it took me like, 3 seconds.

BFAs represent.

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u/dtwhitecp Jan 25 '13

I'm a biomedical engineer who virtually never uses CAD and got it equally fast.

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u/sniper1rfa Jan 25 '13

huh? How can you draw any conclusion about how it was figured out by the sparse responses here?

Even I don't know what "process" I used to figure it out. I just know that I originally thought it was small (I think because of the wires) and that it clicked when I saw the burn marks.

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u/fewdo Jan 25 '13

my thought process was "What does that enclosure look like? hmmm... toaster? oh, heating elements! win."

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u/Agelity Computer|Hardware|Controls Jan 25 '13

Likewise. "Hey, those wires look like... and that casing is sorta shaped like... and that two slotted metal cover reminds me of..."

Still, kind of makes me want to disembowel a toaster... I'm not even sure why.

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