I was in a company-wide meeting earlier. It's that time of the year when the big kahunas tell you "nice job" and "keep up the good work" and all that nonsense.

Anyway, I was standing near a long line of computers. Think internet cafe without the partition. Right smack in the middle of these computers I saw this:

At first I thought it was a printer. But where does the paper come out? Hmmm.... Is it perhaps a scanner or a photocopier? But again, where does the paper come out?!! Is it a shredder? Where will the shreds go? It doesn't have one of those compartments for the shreds.

I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I took a closer inspection. There seems to be 3 buttons. 2 of these are marked "EJECT" while the middle 1 is marked "BREAK", very interesting. Is it some sort of external shared CD-ROM? Let's say you have 2 PCs with no CD-ROMs, do you connect the 2 PCs to this device? But I checked the wires at the back and there was only 1 set of wire connecting it to the PC on the right.

I didn't dare touch the POWER button so I just took a picture of it instead. Perhaps someone out there can tell me what it is. I'm obviously too lazy to Google about it. I only have time to blog about it and label the picture.

Is it a 3-disc CD changer? A waffle maker? What the hell is it?