And the winners of the Sept/Oct WTHII game with the actual answer are...

Seems we have a lot of DIY members in our audience. Quite a few people knew the real-answer to the Sept-Oct 'What The Heck Is It?' game. One winner even provided a link to the gadget. Here are first set of winners. There were ten with right answer: 

This strange looking contraption is the Alden 9220P Ease-out Broken Light Bulb Remover!

https://www.amazon.com/Alden-9220P-Ease-out-Broken-Remover/dp/B003NSBVNQ

Thanks, aKaJoE

Alden 9220P Ease-out Broken Light Bulb Remover, it comes in a two piece set. Christopher E. Carlson

I believe that the big yellow thingy with bumps on it is a“Ease-out Broken Light Bulb Remover.” The Rocket Ranger

The device is used to remove broken lights from the fixtures. Sharkey

It's a light bulb remover (if the bulb breaks) Dan Kudo

it is a broken bulb remover' from repper9

The object is a broken light bulb remover. A potato cut in half does the same job cheaper. Bruce B. Mittelman

broken bulb remover Ron Pearson

It’s a tool to remove broken light bulbs from a socket! Mike Hutchinson

It is a broken light bulb base remover thingy...Chase Barber

We also got a couple of dozen answer saying this device was used to replace bulbs. Actually, you use can't this use device to hold and screw in a bulb. It can only remove the broken off base of a bulb. But since SO MANY people sent in 'bulb changer', we picked two at random as winners:

A light bulb changer for hard to reach places. I have a similar one that attaches to an extension pole to reach 12’ ceilings. It works pretty well. Jim Martin

So it might be a gadget that connects to a pole that allows you to reach high light bulbs and change them without a ladder. Sid Cohen