YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND 

I made a (rather poor quality) youtube video of my own version of the Buckminster Fuller Jitterbug; look up The Polyflex says "Hello World" on YouTube.

I would have just linked my youtube video directly, but the URL triggered wikipedia's protection filter.

I used to make them in my home in Santa Cruz, California when I was a UCSC student, then sell them to toy stores all over the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas.

I started making them after a friend gave me his, as he had to cut down on his stuff before moving away to Canada.  After a few minutes of my playing with this toy, he realized how much fun it really was and asked for it back.

I'm pretty sure that Fuller invented them.  I have both volumes of Synergetics; they're really cool but don't make a whole lot of sense.