Being able to balance my checkbook and store my recipes. Oh, yeah - and printing out character-based art.

Magnetic mini-tripod. Using rare-earth magnet from an old hard disk drive. Great for stabilizing point-and-shoot and even small DSLRs. There is amazingly huge number of iron and steel things sticking out of the ground in a typical city (not counting cars) that can be used as a base for this minipod