A neat, funky, mysterious device you'd find in a curiosity shop in a movie--the kind with the wise, dusty old proprietor who appears and disappears, the kind of shop you can't find when you try to locate it again--and it's got some sharp edges and places that reflect the light in unusual patterns and maybe it's just something some Victorian scientist invented, or maybe it comes from somewhere else. You don't know, but it doesn't really matter, it's the wondering that counts.