I believe that alchemists have been searching for the elusive 'brass magnet' for millenia without success. The dustbuster option seems more sensible except that by the time it makes it through specification, tender, development, testing etc., it'll be astronomically over budget and we'll all have hovertanks and phasers.
We'll be back at square one, looking for a clever way to collect all the spent Duracells.
On a more realistic note, is it beyond the whit of man to design somewhere for CVRT operators to park thir arrses when 'head up'? I've yet to meet one with a posterior designed to fit in the space next to the radio. Or does bowman has a built in bench?