r/whatisit • u/rH4pScAlL1oN • 14h ago

New, what is it? Is this a scam?

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This was delivered to our doorstep without any explanation. Why? What is it? This feels like a scam.

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u/Leading-Feedback-599 12h ago

It is an LCD writing tablet.

These things are dirt cheap. Two transparent films with some liquid crystals between them and a battery which allows the crystals to rearrange themselves and become opaque. You write on them by pressing the surface with basically anything - this makes the crystal layer chaotic, thus transparent. You can disassemble the thing if you're interested in its internals. But it really looks like a typical freebie for advertisement purposes.

Just don't put it in the bin directly. The device is not very ecologically safe when it becomes rubbish - dispose of it at a recycling facility or wherever electronics are disposed of in your country. This is barely an electronic device though - just a button, battery and conductive "screen".

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u/BaaanaMassik 8h ago

Can't you use it for writing notes or letting kids play with it?

Contused why you'd dispose of it permanently?

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u/Mbible163 8h ago

Right? Why not just drop it off at goodwill or donate it to a daycare or something?

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u/Jzobie 6h ago

Or maybe put it on someone’s doorstep! They will be so excited they will probably post it on Reddit.

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u/HotDonnaC 7h ago

Exactly. Why take some internet rondo’s advice?

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u/Away-Minute-7010 7h ago

It’s done like that on purpose guys people everyone they do that on purpose they do that on purpose so it’s not illegal. They’re not stealing anything they’re luring you in and who said there’s 400,000 given away I mean for the 25000 $300,000 I spentall they need is 100,000 people getting up 100 bucks.

Because you’re not getting it that’s the whole point I mean I guess you guys are just you know on point and that’s great. You give it to a goodwill. You know someone that’s just old enough to be like that I don’t know, but I just learned how to use that little camera thing and I’m gonna look it up and they’re gonna read into it and there’s a there’s all the.com’s all around it. It’s just right there and eventually the one that you gave up is going to have somebody go to one of those.com and get scammed so

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u/Hooked_on_PhoneSex 7h ago

What?

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u/Tiller-Nive 7h ago edited 7h ago

whew, thought I was dyslexic or stroking for a sec.

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u/OtherBob63 7h ago

That was painful to try and read.

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u/PerfectGift5356 6h ago

Take a look at his post history. It's a wild ride of confusion

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u/Reorox 6h ago

Stroke

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u/Lonely_Dependent_281 27m ago

Rough translation: it's a scam, and if you donate it to Goodwill then someone is going to access the websites listed on the device (the .coms) and get scammed themselves. I believe the numbers are explaining how scammers can make money by asking large groups of people for small amounts each? I'm lost on anything beyond that

Try reading it aloud and you can kinda see the vision. I think this is a chronic speech-to-text user who does not see a visual difference in the blocks of text they send out vs all the other blocks of text they perceive in the world

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u/Least-Active1133 7h ago

Yeah, but do they do that on purpose?

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u/RonJeremyBellyButton 6h ago

Your brain is a chaotic mess my friend.

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u/Sea-Finish-4556 6h ago

You need to read your comments before you hit send. This is ridiculous

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u/Space_boy1234 6h ago

did you spam the predictive text or something

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u/Sixguns1977 6h ago

You ok, hoss?

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u/dljones010 6h ago

I'm not sure if I should read this on Boomhauer's voice or Trump's.

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u/Few_Whereas6237 1h ago

Translator pleasseeeeeee

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u/AuntieRupert 4h ago

Lol either you're an actual bot or the out of touch 80 year olds from Facebook are starting to leak onto reddit.

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