I can't replicate it with a strand of pasta, but the outside of it was smooth, even thought you could see a crazy amount of circuitry just under the surface.

[Its job done, the Linguidusa is unceremoniously picked up and dangled into his mouth to be eaten.]

In the stories, old lady Medusa had snakes for hair and turned men to stone when they looked at her. [So the grounds for comparison are obvious.]

That was the one thing this device had going for it; it took more than just staring at it to turn you to stone.