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I used Google Lens to identify my weirdest junk drawer items - here's how it did

Think Google Lens is just for IDing flowers and landmarks? I tried it on random 3D printed parts, medical thingamajigs, and one oddly familiar object that almost tricked it.

After spending a fairly extended time finally cleaning out the drawer, I was left with five items that defined identification. What happened, I think, was that Google Lens didn't know the scale of the item, so it just found things that looked like flat rectangles with lots of little posts. It's a bit of flexible material that the hot nozzle runs against to wipe the extra spew off before it continues to print.

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