When Barflies Dream
When Barflies Dream, they dream of things like this, an e-Glass that signals the bar or wait staff when its empty so that someone can come and refill it.
So that, even if the barfly has passed out on their stool, they can still get their drink refreshened up.

Or this older story on NewScientist about Date Rape Drug Detecting Swizzle Sticks which came out originally in August 2001 (hey, I got laid off that month! woohoo!) and thinking that these were about a year from the market. Well, its been 18 months so where are they? Oh yeah, the bottom fell out of the market and five dollar swizzle sticks became declasse.

In MegaCorp Bad-Ad Karmic Payback News
Dude, You're Getting a Cell in which the Dell Dude (Ben Curtis) gets busted with an awful lot of dope (Note: an eighth is not an awful lot of dope, early rumors had been somewhere in excess of 5 ounces, but that's been scaled back just a little bit in light of fact) which is probably what he needed to smoke in order to use the crappy computers he hawks.
Primary thanks to Esther for the new links and secondary thanks to The Smoking Gun for providing the details and that great pic!

Also, from Esther as well, comes the Konfabulator which allows Mac OS X users to create their own desktop widgets, (tiny apps that do pretty much just a few things, like a weather widget or a day of the week widget or something like that). Anyway, I'll mess around with it when I get the chance.