There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could've done.

It's a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)... or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you're playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.

Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.

E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.

That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.

I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn't overheat instantly.

True. The yield is too small for it to be useful as a bomb.