Not in any normal, practical senses. I think it's been done for religious displays and reliquaries, though. [Though he couldn't remember any specific examples beyond a vague feeling that it was something that was done. ...Not that it was particularly relevant to the conversation to remember, and so he shook his head and focused on the important details.]

Vertical and connected to a terminal with wires... maybe they were used to run some sort of diagnostic. Did it look like the sort of thing someone could step into?