The wares for this month are shown below. Click the image for a larger version.

Ware One

Ware Two

There are two wares this month (and again, I’m late and I apologize–I should be able to get back on schedule next month). I’m hoping they are particularly challenging to guess, because the first person who can correctly guess both wares gets a special prize — a chumby. The first person to get just one of the wares correct will get the usual prize for name that ware ($10 gift card to amazon.com or any piece of bunniestudios schwag you want). You need to identify not only the function of the ware but the item in which it is embedded. As a note, ware two’s wires extend onward to form a spiral loop, they are not shown since the full extent of the wires were outside the range of the x-ray mosaic.

As a reminder, if you are posting an answer, you may want to use the md5sum trick to claim your entry time (e.g., echo “your answer” | md5sum and post that to the comments for your initial guess) without giving away your answer (so that others can’t crib off of your thoughts). Don’t forget to return at the end of the month to fully describe your answer in plaintext, or else I can’t judge your entry! The descriptions will be important because I suspect one of the wares will be particularly difficult to guess, and I’d like to judge this contest carefully because the prize is relatively large.

Here’s an example of the md5sum trick in case you aren’t familiar with it:

$ echo "your answer" | md5sum
21bfb9699d16738785ddcb8dfb472e2c *-

You would then just post 21bfb9699d16738785ddcb8dfb472e2c to the comment round. If you don’t have md5sum, then either get linux, or install cygwin ;-)