Just piggybacking on ST's post. The inventor's name is Donald Featherston. Heard that news bulletin on NPR and thought of Jimbo and all of the QJ-devotees to the plastic lawn ornament that has become so ubiquitous here in the US...much more practical to carry in than those green crystal balls or yard gnomes...Looking forward to any potential rendenz-vous out there, whatever it gets called in the end :)