- Just a simple kitchen timer. - People don’t appreciate enough that in Vietnam you get to say stuff costs hundreds of thousands of dongs. - I have a little Vietnamese store next to my house and the sign that says bong dong cracks me up. - I’m gonna start calling the thing where you put the downstem into the bong “bong dong”" 
- There used to be one in my town called “Dong Hung.” Always made me laugh. - They’ve since changed their name. I suspect someone finally told them what that means in English. 
 
 
 
- Manga exhibition. That’s a pretty obvious clue. It’s a pornography device. For example, when you type 58008 into it and turn it upside down it makes boobs appear on it. - Solved! 
 
- I assume then the followup question would be why they’d be using a timer while drawing. If it’s at a convention I could then assume they might do small commissions for people and use the timer to ensure they draw them quickly and don’t spend too much time on each drawing. - Not at convention, more like that exhibition. There are no artist do commission. - The machine (timer) i show you are work tool of an famous artist. They put all his work tool in glass box for people to see. - I wonder if the artist was a fan of the pomodoro technique? 
 
- Maybe to bill them. - It is the same when developer use time tracker to do freelancer job. The job is billed by hours. - Most manga were releasing on a weekly basis. That’s a lot of work with short deadlines. He probably calculated the maximum amount of time per page and times himself in order to be able to finish on time. 
 
 
- It’s for calculating power levels in Dragon Ball Z. - It’s over 5000! 
 
- It’s an early form of the calculator called a numberlator - thats a numcat because it only concatenates numbers together, the numberlator came lator. - That’s number wang! - 4? 44? 444? - Foooooooour? - Did you say 4? That’s Wanger-numb! - Let’s rotate the board! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Looks like a timer: https://office-japan.jp/en/products/タニタ-デジタルタイマー-ブラック-td415bk 
- We ought to ban joke answers from the community. It’s pretty crap having to search for the actual answer in a sea of non helpful answers. 
- It’s a declarative calculator. There are no operations. Only numbers. - 58008 
 
- Looks like a couple of pens to me. 








