What is this?

Paolo Nespoli with a mystery equipment at the Columbus laboratory of the Space Station: "What is this? Many of you have a similar equipment at home and use it frequently!"

ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli is featured in this photo taken on 21 December 2010. Paolo is serving as a flight engineer with Cady Coleman, Dmitri Kondratyev, Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and commander Scott Kelly.

Paolo’s MagISStra mission is Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS. He will land back to Earth in June 2010.