For suitable meta points, be sure to use your Amazon Echo or Dash button to buy a CueCat.
While crude; and substantially in advance of the technology required to make them work well enough to match their creators’ intentions; the CueCat is arguably chillingly prescient as an early embodiment of a gadget you (don’t, at least if the company’s lawyers have anything to say about it, and they sure tried) own entirely for the purpose of being advertised at harder.
(The feature that listened for audio signals from nearby TV advertisements was particularly half baked; but notably ahead of its time.)
