Taking a page from Mouser's flickr feed and innumerable kids shows and brain teaser games, here's a game where you try to figure out what something is from a photo taken horrendously close to the object in question.
Sorry for the focus. My Canon point-and-shoot has decent macro, which means it's not great.
First person to guess correctly gets to be forever remembered as the first person to guess correctly.
Update: Be sure to see round two.
Appears to be wiper arms on glass, sans the wiper blades.
Bzzt. Negative.
Two contacts for an automotive light locking assembly or two contacts for a thermostat. I'm leaning toward an automotive piece because of the dirt. Either way, they are not in the correct position and the device in not currently operational.
Not quite, sorry.
Let's see... the things on the left sure look like copper conductors with snap-in detents for some sort of rotating armature... possibly the inside of a rotary switch? But I can't explain why it's on such a thin substrate, or why you'd design an electrical switch in this way if there weren't another set of contacts nearby... Perhaps they're just obscured? Also, the distribution of dirt/dust suggests that this is the operating orientation of the device, meaning the switch axis would have to be vertical, which seems unlikely for a car. Maybe part of an old appliance, e.g. oven?
Also in the "not quite" category, but close.