Orville was always the less talented of the two brothers, so he had to use this artifact to steal other people's brain power, just so he could keep up with his brother Wilbur. This artifact was discovered when a 15 year old homeless boy spray painted an extremely complex mathematical equation on the side of a wall. Witnesses reported that he was glowing and appeared to be in some kind of a trance while he was doing it. It was later discovered that a stockbroker was using this artifact, and inadvertently stealing the brain power and almost killing Nick, to help him (the stockbroker) create mathematical formulas which he used to predict how the market would change.