There was a time when battery-less electronics might have excited me, but these days dis-connectable batteries/power supplies and real, hardware off switches seem like important, useful features for just about anything.
I know, its a joke, but just the other day, I was thinking about faraday cages and how maybe it wouldn't be terrible to have one around the house and if I could pull it off with tin foil...
I was seriously considering tin foil to stop snooping from government rays. What. A. World.