And the winner is …. or at least, the person that guessed closest is to what was scanned by our scanning electron microscope is …
AMANDA!
She guessed Taffey!
Great guess Amanda, it’s actually a starburst fruit chew. Congrats Amanda! You’ll be contacted directly and we’ll send you your USB stick and giftcard within the next few days!
It’s week 2 of “NAME THAT SAMPLE!”
Week 1 was pretty fun … we had some great guesses (and some not so great ones) … but all guesses/entries are encouraged.
This one is definitely a hard one. Whoever guesses correctly first will win a 1GB ASPEX USB STICK. (winner will be contacted via email) AND a $50 Giftcard to Amazon.com (we’re upping the stakes on this one since no oone has guessed correctly in over a week.)
Just comment below with your guess! The contest was supposed to end on Friday, but since no one has guessed correctly, we’re going to let it run for a few more days ..
UPDATE: December 19, 2009 – Noone has guessed correctly. A few people have come pretty close though. Let the guesses keep coming in!
UPDATE: December 22, 2009 – WE HAVE A WINNER! or someone that has answered pretty close … we will announce it later today! Our next NAME THAT SAMPLE campaign will start TONIGHT!
Interested in sending in an item to get scanned by one of our SEM’s? Just Send Us Your Sample!
System Configuration
Product: PSEM® eXpress
Operating Parameters: VP–BSED Detector,
Accelerating Voltage 20.0 kV,
Working Distance 14.4 mm
Reporting Software: Personal Image Print™
Looks like some sort of plant material , onion ,potatoe, bulbil of some kind
A rose spine
an onion?
I’m going to go with a radish.
looks like paint!?
I don’t know, it kind of looks like wood.
I think it’s a potato.
Clay of some sort
Looks like the inside of a pumpkin to me.
It’s definitely, without a doubt, a cloud of fart. gimme my usb stick.
A gum wrapper?
Band-aid.
That is chalk!
uuhhhh i think it is food
Particle board.
skin with hair on it?
I Think It’s a BEAN.
Aluminum
obviously gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe
whale
i think it’s something stuck onto a wall (like plasterboard)
a vine growing on a house
oh that’s definitely a dog’s tooth
Shot in the dark here: a walnut? Does kinda look like a potato, though.
A shoelace
lint
Envelope gum
Potato?
Mud?
Texture on Left side looks organic. Texture on right looks fibrous. I will go with a mushroom growing out of a piece of poo.
Ok wild guess
A mushroom ?
Cactus
skin with a pimple, lol
A razor shaving a hair on someone’s body.
sweet potato?
ginger
i think its part of an eraser
a white out brush
Is it a sample of fiberglass?
Woodpecker?
[...] What is it? I thought a thorn or something at first, but now I’m thinking… bee leg? Well, one thing I can say for sure is that it’s a scan by that desktop SEM machine we mentioned a few weeks back. They’re running a contest to win a flash drive and an Amazon gift certificate; all you have to do is go over there and comment what you think is pictured above. [...]
My parents drink ginger tea sometimes, and this looks kind of like ginger. Is it?
Foam insulation blown into walls
Squash ?
a mushroom of some kind.
Bread
taffey
Looks like a coated paper on the right and an adhesive tape (or something similar) on the left.
it’s an insect.
[...] Identify this thing, win a $50 gift card December 17th, 2009 What is it? I thought a thorn or something at first, but now I’m thinking… bee leg? Well, one thing I can say for sure is that it’s a scan by that desktop SEM machine we mentioned a few weeks back. They’re running a contest to win a flash drive and an Amazon gift certificate; all you have to do is go over there and comment what you think is pictured above. [...]