There's simmering discontent at the increasing membership of the House of Lords and the former Liberal leader, Lord Steel of Aikwood, has put down a motion to block any more additions.
The level of responsiveness and accuracy required by Block 54 is not possible with any other existing motion-control technology, according to the company.
Twine itself is a block of plastic containing an accelerometer (which senses motion or vibration), a temperature sensor and a processor much like Botanicalls.
In the past week, the Motion Picture Association - a group representing film studios - successfully applied for a court injunction requiring BT to block access to an infringing website called Newzbin2.