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Thermal fibers around the pillow radiate at different temperatures, so that long, tight scared-of-the-monsters-under-the-bed hugs will be different that quick goodnights. If mommy or daddy isn't online, the pillow stores these messages of love for whenever work time ends. The pillows can both give and receive hugs, and can distinguish between the hugs of different children — or grandchildren.

You can call your kid and you can both hold your pillows as you read a bedtime story over the phone, if you ever have time. There's no timeframe yet for when "The Hug," will hit stores, but several designers are working on products akin to "Hug Evening Apparel" for long-distance relationships, the details of which, I'll have to leave to your imagination.

5. Scanning for Corporate Fallout
If you're fed up with the worst offenders in corporate America, and swear never again to buy any product from an offending company — or companies that do business with that company — your wish may soon be granted.

A graduate student at MIT has invented a "Corporate Fallout Detector" — a handheld scanner that you can run over any product's bar code to reveal the manufacturer's history of pollution or ethics violations. The device, which is still in development, sounds a noise that corresponds to the severity of the infractions.

One can only imagine that the Corporate Fallout Detector will be featured in different models, so that Democrats and Republicans can respectively stay away from companies they loathe.

Perhaps later models will come with personal settings, so that you'll never have to buy anything ever again that's somehow connected to that no-good ingrate of a former boss who worked you to the bone and left you with nothing but a vengeful scanner.

Buck Wolf is entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. "The Wolf Files" is published Tuesdays.