Or know what this gadget is for; or how does it work ? Am sorry, cannot make it a larger image ☹️

This looks like a trending thing in online ads lately. I don't know the formal name for them but they are basically enigma objects which tease you because they look like something but in fact are just contrived to catch your eye and make you click on it. I know merchants like Temu use these a lot - you never find out what the enigma object is, and your computer takes on a crap ton of cookies and trackers. And they hoover up data about you.

At least this one doesn't look obscene, which is more than can be said for some e-commerce firms.

To save you some time, that's an early flux capacitor. It couldn't handle the 1.21 gigawatts needed, and DeLoreans hadn't been invented yet.

The modern ones are readily available: https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor

However, you will need the smaller 50 MW flux capacitor, which O'Reilly doesn't stock, if you are building an interocitor.

I was not in the joking intention; the image of the device is ~30years old, not in any recent web trend of any kind, and the image posted has no backgrounds of cookies nor collecting any data here. I do not do that.

Sorry for the assuming. I didn't think you were joking, and at first did think it reminded of enigma objects in web ads. On the question of the OP, it looks a little like something that gun hobbyists use to process ammo. Higher rez would really help but I understand you are stuck with this pixelated image.

I had mistaken one bit for coiled wire, but I see it's holes in plexiglass or glass? And is that a crank handle fixed to the center? Perhaps an ashtray that removes it's own butts?

35 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

Perhaps an ashtray that removes it's own butts?

This seems both plausible and a towering exemplar of American innovation at its finest. Because operating a crank to remove butts is ever so much simpler than tilting the ashtray over a dustbin. Ideally, the apparatus would launch the butts upward and on a trajectory which could be set for the specific location desired. Or they could be lobbed at passing hobos and vagabonds who retrieve them for residual scraps of tobacco?