I've been waiting for someone to suddenly start selling my "buckyballs" invention. Toy companies aren't interested (too expensive, plus lethal swallowing danger.) I don't wanna start a company, plus my habitual fame-avoidance. So I put it in the PD public domain on youtube. WOW!!! Finally happened. They're calling it Neocube, but their only "invention" is to sell them all stacked together as a cube. The idea goes wild all over the place. A few months later there were Neocubes and Cybercubes and QQmag and Magcube and Magbead and Buckyballs and Cubercube and Nanodots, and many un-trademarked magnet blobs on eBay (none patentable you see! Already in the PD, anyone can pick a new product name and start selling them.) FINALLY at long last there's a valid purpose for spherical supermagnets. They even might end up outselling all other shapes. Who was the "real inventor?" Probably a you-tuber who saw the "Magic Magnetic" guy selling millions of cylinder bracelets ...and then found my videos about magnet-bead puzzles.
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