^Self-Stirring Saucepan. It's a prototype made by a Japanese dentist. And it works! It's the kind of thing nobody's ever done before, and perhaps nobody really needs but it could take off. Thanks Jaakko J. Wallenius for the link to the gismag article: http://www.gizmag.com/kuru-kuru-nabe-self-stirring-saucepan/22709/ - this is a link to the video of it in action.^