The Grand OC! [CONTEST XXX: HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEN]

Username: Dragon Fogel
Name: The Synthetron
Race: Laboratory Equipment
Gender: Inapplicable
Biography: It was an ambitious project. A device that could synthesize any element, and combine them to form any compound. It would have revolutionized the world.
Unfortunately, like most ambitious projects, ultimately it couldn't deliver on its results. It didn't even come close; for whatever reason, no matter how many tweaks they made to the thing, it would only produce sodium and nobelium. Eventually, after wasting billions of dollars, the project was abandoned and the prototype Synthetron was simply discarded in a trash bin.
The next morning, in place of the trash bin there was nothing but a pile of radioactive salt and the Synthetron had disappeared.

Description: The Synthetron is an odd-looking device, about the size of a toaster. There's a funnel for putting materials in and an output tray. A fancy logo on the side reads "The Synthetron". Otherwise, there's nothing particularly remarkable about it.
Well, except the way it glows sometimes.

Weapons and Abilities: The Synthetron can process literally any material and alter its chemical composition to that of either sodium or nobelium. On rare occasions, it's been observed to produce compounds containing one or both of the elements, but nobody could ever figure out what triggered that. It was almost as if the thing had a mind of its own, which was preposterous - it didn't have any computerized parts, so there wasn't even a chance of emergent artificial intelligence.
Likewise, the Synthetron has no capability to move. Someone would have to move it from place to place for it to go anywhere. But obviously the Synthetron has no way of convincing or manipulating people to move it, even if it somehow had the intelligence to want to move.
It's just a defective machine that somehow doesn't have an off switch even though we're sure we installed one at some point.