No, it was dodecahedral or octahedral, I can't remember. I just vaguely recall it looked like a Platonic solid. I don't remember it having a subscription. I think it just communicated with BT to your laptop or something? Might've just been a kickstarter that didn't get funding.
> there is no other country on earth this would be possible. That's just a fact
I don’t think this the case. If anything the US makes life very hard for even high-skilled work-based immigrants. Many countries have a higher % of foreign born residents than the US (Singapore, Australia, Germany, Canada)
I myself used to work at Google UK and my own team was 100% foreign born engineers from every continent.