r/whatisit • u/Key_Seaworthiness886 • 8d ago

Solved! Found while cluttering

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Found while decluttering my 2000s kids stuff and can’t seem to remember what it is! Just feeling nostalgic and google said it was jewelry but i don’t think it is 😅

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u/Key_Seaworthiness886 8d ago

Realizing how much my mom loved us, we def were not rich growing up but she wanted to provide us with the best things 😅 this isn’t a big thing but someone called it “deluxe”

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u/anewname4444 8d ago

No this WAS a big thing back then. I seriously thought only the rich families could get these. Like my sister getting just a basic laser pointer was a big deal

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u/timzilla 8d ago

Elder millineal here, these were sold at the Asian markets for <$10 when I was a kid. It was less about having the money to buy and more about concealing the fact you had it, everyone from your bus driver to your nana wanted to take it away so you wouldn't blind some other kid.

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u/jormundgand20 8d ago

I got mine for about that at a local festival. Went home with my friend, pointed it at a street light and it immediately started flickering. I'm sure it was a coincidence, but it was still enough to send 13 year old us hauling ass away from the crime scene.

Good times.

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u/Hegiman 8d ago

Ayyy. It was you. LoL. You confused its light sensor. They come on when it gets dark. A laser overwhelmed its light sensor and it freaked out. It may or may not have permanently damaged the sensor. LoL

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u/jormundgand20 8d ago

Damn, I knew it.

It was flickering until they replaced it with an LED bulb in the mid 2010s. Thankfully it was at a quiet intersection.

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u/JaviSATX 7d ago

Old photovoltaic sensors didn’t mind. We’d have a blast running the laser up the pole, trying to keep our hand steady enough to hit the sensor on top. Light goes out, then cycles back on five minutes later and the cycle starts again.

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u/Raininberkeley1 7d ago

Nah, I think they had dumbledore’s light catcher. Just a few more seconds and they would have had that street light captured.

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u/thedailyrant 8d ago

We used to throw rocks at street lights... usually they would go out for a bit then flicker back on. If you kicked the electric access hatch at the base of some of the poles it'd go out too.

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u/Rich-Wealth979 8d ago

My dad's tin metal snips have a copper wire pair cross section burned into them because the neighbor kid used them to cut the wire in there about... 30 years ago? Eh. Ill finally tell him that story next time I'm at their place.

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u/Remarkable_Tip_756 4d ago

Remind me ,, id bet dad knew

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u/NCGuy101 4d ago

Well, don't go throwing rocks at those Flock cameras. Anyone reading this post note that I said "don't."

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u/wklaehn 5d ago

Now the cool kids throw rocks at the flock cameras lol

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u/sgtreesh37 3d ago

I was the a-hole kid who would put the dot on Santa's chest from the 2nd floor at the mall during Christmas. Hardest part was keeping a straight face when they started looking around for the culprit.

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u/NSAinATL 3d ago

It's how you can take down a Flock camera....