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Question about what to call an object.

Gem? Jewel?

Consider how our gadgets and devices have been named: (tele)phone, tv, vaccuum (cleaner), battery (formerly dry cell), CD, tape (cassette), etc.

I like the idea of naming it after the inventor, like how Brits call vaccuum cleaners Hoovers.
 
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