The LCD Phidget...
A few months ago I purchased some of the super cool products listed on the Phidets.com site, specifically I picked up the RFID kit and the blue LCD display. These things are extremely simple to work with, here is some sample code.
All it does is creates a timer which
automatically will update the two lines on the LCD screen with the
current time, weather conditions and if Winamp is available it will
attempt to grab the current song title.