Jessica brought into the office the most amazing and disturbing toy today. Apparently she bought it at a convenience store…it’s a variant on the “stress-relieving” squeeze toy concept: a partially opaque plastic enevelope, covered with nubbly protrusions, containing twelve multicolored silicone or rubber-like balls, each the size of a large gumball. The whole thing is sort of a lumpy ellipsoidal sphere. The balls seem to be in some kind of viscous substance, so that when you squeeze the whole deal they slide about rather evocatively – it’s like handling a rubber glove which has been filled with eyeballs.

Needless to say it evokes all kinds of fascinatingly disgusted interest from everyone it’s introduced to. Has anyone else seen one of these things? Who makes them? What are they called? Where can I invest?