LED lightbulbs and X10 dimmer switches?

As an experiment, I ordered an LED bulb advertised on its web site
as "compatible" with dimmer switches. As I sort of expected, "compatible"
doesn't mean it actually changes luminosity - it just means it works :-).
In practice, it comes on at some point and goes off at some point, and
no dimming seems to be evident.

With the light bulb police gaining ground all over the world, someone
must have figured out that there will be a market for replacement
bulbs that still work with X10 dimmers.

Surely it would be possible to build a bulb that measures the duty
cycle of the input AC and controls the brightness of the LEDs
from it (possibly a bit more expensive than the already expensive
LED bulbs, but what the heck, the switches are more expensive too)?

Anyone know of any LED bulbs that actually work well with X10 dimmers?
Anyone monitoring this newsgroup for new product ideas? :-).
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