Miss Pao said, "Of course, neither device carries a maker's mark. The 
bat-eared one has Dr. X written all over it; most of its features appear to 
be evolved, not
engineered, and the Doctor's Flea Circus is nothing more than an effort to 
collect evolved mites with useful features. At a first glance, the other device 
could have come from any of the engineering works associated with major 
phyles—Nippon, New Atlantis, Hindustan, the First Distributed Republic 
being prime suspects. But on deeper examination I find a level of 
elegance—"