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What is this Strange Gadget in My Car?
VanessaDannenberg asks: "Four months ago my fiancé and I bought a 1997 Thunderbird, which came with a few aftermarket mods. Of particular interest is this strange radio-related gadget that was attached to the windshield above the mirror. It has two 5-pin ports on it (as pictured) which accept a flat cable that runs under the car's headliner. I can't tell where that cable ends, but I figure it's a laptop interface (RS232?). Has anyone seen this thing before? What does it do?"
The device is likely to be mundane and ordinary, not some tool of awesome power and destruction.
My guess is that it is part of an aftermarket car alarm with wireless remote, an internal pressure-gradient sensing type. The LED displays the time left to shut the door before it will trigger the alarm.
Couldn't you just ask those you bought it from?
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Where's the power? my guess would be the socket on the end.
My guess would be a garage door opener.
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Answer the damn question or go read maxim in the bathroom.
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She's cool in my book.
http://starbase.globalpc.net/~vanessa/c128tower/i
OMG a nerd on slashdot who's female and not the likely winner of a hotornot contest with a legit question.
Does she deserve a bunch of sexist heckling and brush off answers? Nope.
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