And the answer is .........

Greetings Dahlink! It is Sunday evening and I am listening to the retro-sounds of Radio 2, whilst Naughty George heartily slurps at his gonads.

I have just spent an entertaining 30 minutes reading your responses to Friday's gadget challenge - you know - the one where I showed you a picture of a gadget, and you had to guess what it was.

But I have to admit that I was slightly perturbed about the number of people who thought it some type of sex toy. It made me wonder what kind of vibes I'm putting out there.

Pic.No.1 The mystery gadget

Anyway, now is the time to put you out of your misery and reveal what the gadget actually does ......... dah duh daaaaaaaahhhhhhhh [that was a drum roll, just in case you thought it was Naughty George honking up mouldy cheese again] ..............

Vid.No.1 The gadget revlealed .............. featuring my arms, and Izzy's head (45 seconds)

Yes, it's a bloody egg topper! How cool is that? It cleanly cuts open your soft boiled eggs so there is no more need for picking out broken bits of shell.

But the fact that it cracks open your eggs is a bit boring compared to the physics behind it's mechanism: The 70g stainless steel ball takes 0.181 seconds to fall down the 16cm shaft, attaining a velocity of 1.77 meters per second, and thus exerting a force on the stainless steel bell-shaped part of 0.6867 Newtons .... which is just the right amount of force to cut a perfect ring. Bloody marvellous it is.

So were there any spods out there who guessed what my new gadget did?

Shockingly, yes...... and now it's time to reveal the winner ....................... dah duh daaaaaaaahhhhhhhh ......

MASHER (visit him here) Opens in new window

About Masher: Well, he is the author of one my one of my favourite blogs. He is irrevent, and has a wicked sense of (very British) humour. I am not suprised in the least that he won the competition, because he is the type of person who makes things from scratch incorporating a transistor. Who does that? It's proper geek-dom. Anyway, congratulations, Masher!

The only other two people who guessed what my gadget did were: The Chunky Goddess, and Andre Vaux, so they are spods too.

Anyway dahlink, after all that excitement - what the devil have you been up to this weekend?

P.S. If you want to buy an egg topper thing, I got mine from a really cool website called:

http://www.mocha.uk.com/

I hope I get commission.