Epiphany Emission Point

As shown in this drone footage, the Emission Point device appears on approach to be an odd, perhaps tacky model of a record player -- perhaps originating from a lovely uncharted isle somewhere in the mid-Pacific Ocean.

Any casual passerby can determine that the legs, framework of the box, and crank are a dark-stained palmwood, treated with a decorative shellack or resin that may help to increase the overall "hardness" of the not-really-wood fiber. The same material was also used to construct the tone arm and a pair of reinforcing outer rings that keep the horn seated in place.

Three of the sidewalls and underside of the main box are made of well-sanded, pale gray beachwood. It is probably upcycled from a seaborne construct such as a small fishing ship or a beach house, given the obvious signs of sea weathering over many decades. Only the sidewall that contains the crank is made of a much darker, ruddy wood that may be bamboo strips.

The top surface of the main box is completely inlaid with what appears to be abalone shell or mother-of-pearl, forming a scintillating glossy plane. Possibly the shell has also been covered in a thin layer of transparent resin to protect it from scratches and make it perfectly flat.

The horn is an unusually large, glowing white turritella shell. These gastropods do not ordinarily grow to such a size. Nor are they usually plain white, much less this lustrous angelic white. Perhaps the shell is a fossil? Or has undergone some bleaching process? Or the entire shell may be a 3d-printed sculpture modeled on the much smaller true object.

The actual turntable is not present.

No marks on the existing device indicate where one would attach to the rest of it.

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Not described:

What happens when one turns the Gadget on.

What happens, whether the Gadget is on or off, when a person looks directly into the "horn".

Significance

Contextual clues suggest that this Emitter is designed to create, or perhaps to control the frequency of emission, of the sparkling motes of light and/or the occasional audio/radio signal leaks accompanying them, that appear intermittently in a specific geographical region.

The Epiphany Emission Point Gadget gains its provisional name from the day on which investigators (unafilliated with its creator) first discovered it: the Magi's Epiphany of 2010.

Emission Point Gadget
https://youtu.be/1rcT4YhCcTg

Item type

Miscellaneous

Current Location

New York City

Creator

Govannon

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Rarity

Anyone who is not the designer nor a member of the assembly-and-installation team has probably never seen one of these before.

Possibly similar devices have been seen? This would not appear out of place in an eclectic but low-market lounge, or perhaps as part of a tropical-themed furniture grouping at a retro home store. That is, it would not appear out of place until it started to operate.

Weight

approximately 85 lbs | 1 AP