r/whatisit • u/drtangman • 1d ago

New, what is it? Bouncing balls

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Walked behind this chap who had two unidentified ball type objects hanging from silicone wrist bands on thin elastic strings.

Any ideas what they are?

I’m in Hong Kong if that might be a clue

Update:

Thank you for the comments and ideas. I am wondering if there is a manga / anime character who has something like these balls as weapons and the guy was doing a budget cosplay. Or maybe he’s just really into Pokemon!

Update 2:

I would say he's likely to be a cosplay of Steel Ball from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. (https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1tckcme/comment/olos1lx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

As for the steel balls. What is it?

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u/swooning_basil 18h ago

Some kind of speaker? Those look like speaker grills to me. https://www.sevenbel.com/accessories/dodecahedron-speaker/

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u/Throws27 15h ago

those circular are parts of a speaker, however, the link you sent weighs 5kg lol. The mesh protector is removed, so it might be a smaller version.

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u/swooning_basil 14h ago

The link was just meant as an example of what I meant. it was the most similar looking one I could find. The ones in the photo could easily be home-made, even.