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[ShadowHammer]

This thread is for attempting to determine what things you don't know the name of are called. There won't be any rules/posting format, so just feel free to post questions and answers whenever.

To start things off, what are those wristbands that you slap on your wrist and/or any relatively wrist-sized object and they coil around it called?

[Ogdibus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_bracelet

[Itnetlolor]

Now I know I have to be clairvoyant (another word for psychic, if anyone's asking ahead of time) to some degree. I was thinking this up some time ago (like same-day); a Reverse Term Search. Kinda like how Reverse Image Searching works, with submitting an image, and getting it's variants from size to subtle changes and qualities. Well, instead of submitting an image worth a thousand words, you submit the thousands of words to find a particular word. It's similar in function to RISing (but with words and maybe regular expressions if you're brave), and the Tip of My Tongue word search engine; and end result could be a Thesaurus or something (scratching off words you already used on suggestions lists, since it would be pointless to repeat what you already know), if it doesn't find an exact match; if it does find an exact match, then off to the dictionary you go; especially for confirmation that it found what you were implying.

I didn't take the time to see if it exists already or not. Found it rather funny this came up out of the blue.

EDIT:
And as far as I can figure, no, I don't think it can used/abused for Scrabble or Boggle; although Tip of My Tongue can be (seeing it has an unscramble function, and letter limits, while also being a dictionary search). Nevermind, apply same functions and it could be.

[Orange Wizard]

Tip of My Tongue word search engine

Woah, that thing's awesome.

[Helgoland]

That thing you use at the supermarket checkout to demarcate the line between your stuff and the other guys' stuff. I've heard 'Kassentoblerone' (checkout toblerone) but they come in square versions, too...

[XXSockXX]

That thing you use at the supermarket checkout to demarcate the line between your stuff and the other guys' stuff. I've heard 'Kassentoblerone' (checkout toblerone) but they come in square versions, too...

Warentrenner.

[Silfurdreki]

Wow, I had never given those things enough of a thought to even consider that they had a specific name.

[Dutchling]

That thing you use at the supermarket checkout to demarcate the line between your stuff and the other guys' stuff. I've heard 'Kassentoblerone' (checkout toblerone) but they come in square versions, too...

Warentrenner.

Lol. Beurtbalkje in Dutch. Never heard that term in my life/

[Helgoland]

That thing you use at the supermarket checkout to demarcate the line between your stuff and the other guys' stuff. I've heard 'Kassentoblerone' (checkout toblerone) but they come in square versions, too...

Warentrenner.

The links on that article... There must be a very bored supermarket clerk with a wikipedia account out there.