It lets you hear a computer scream.

The most nostalgic chiptune generator you'll ever hear.

A CD/Blu-ray rewinder.

Not DVDs though, they were self rewinding

It's a telemarketing prevention device. Hook it up to your phone line, and the number of telemarketing calls would drop instantly.

A picture

This is one of the sickest synthesizers of the 1990s g-funk era. It produced the high-pitched portamento sound that provided iconic hooks for many of the tracks on Dr Dre’s 1993 album The Chronic.

Not really what you’re looking for, but it immediately made me think of an intercom device.

It's made by US Robotics, so it must be a positronic brain.

Pregnancy test for a Cylon

Failed download generator

GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE STACY, I WAS ALMOST DONE

Early 90s COVID-19 test.

Wow! This brings back memories... It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I'll explain...

These devices used the "Afterlife Toll" (AT) command set, invented by someone named "Hayes" which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here's an example:

ATDT 6665551234

Translated: "Afterlife Toll, Death Touch ". After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.

Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.

Cool fact: This is where the term, "soul crushing machines" comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).

In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!

That's an albino Atari from 1980.

Really bad white noise machine.

That is a Speak & Spell. You cast a spell, and it speaks about the impact.

How I met your mother.

That was the keyboard Belgian superband Technotronic used in the 1989 block buster hit Pump up the Jam.

An infinite box of nude pictures.

It's a practical joke device. Using it pisses off your mum and makes her shout "get off that damn computer I want to call your aunt Judith"

ECU chip tuner for early CAN bus vehicles.

Says so right on the box.

A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.

This box from Pandora once contained all the world's doomscrolling.

Binary Caller ID

Portable Chat GPT

A magic packet pulse perpetuator and upline / downline pyramid scheme facsimile facilitator aka MPPPUDPSFF

Remote control for the US Robotic Soccer Sports Team.

(I used to have shelves of those wired into Portmasters when starting my ISP. After replacing the analog modems with pri digital modems we took the shelving outside and gave it the Office Space treatment.)

The first in a range of devices in Bill Gates private museum specifically designed to operate the permanently installed gonad stimulator built into his body.

The latest one is a keychain.

CPAP machine

That's violet08

dildo. I'm brave you cowards.

Answering machine

1990's pussy magnet

A deskside air conditioner

It's a booster seat for squirrels

It's a YakBak

It's a device from the 90s that played specialize erotica tapes that had an extra channel which synchronized to an electric pocket pussy (not pictured) over 3.5mm cable.