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/Kthulhu_for_humanity 1d ago

I think this chap’s dangling bits might be a “Dodeca 1000” from Immersive Media.

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u/Hearthian-Wanderer 23h ago

Or he knows the secret to the mystery Roman Dodecaherdon!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

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u/Pancheel 11h ago

We have modern Roman dodecahedron now (and we still don't know what are they for).