This device does seem a little ridiculous--I'm more concerned about recovering my used pins that are always falling off the table (I'm not coordinated enough to get them into the pin cushion while keeping the fabric going straight at the same time!) than acquiring a ridiculous device just to hand them to me. One of my teen boys brought our nail sweeper in (a big magnet on a stick that looks like a miniature push broom used on construction sites to clean up dropped nails and other iron/steel items) and swept my sewing room with it--he came up with hundreds! No wonder my little tomato always looks empty even though I keep buying new pins...