Um, "odd" doesn't carry quite the same weight with Hitchhiker fans that it would somewhere else. Anywhere else, in fact. I mean, the guy has footnotes that go on for eight days, and it's a 5 book (plus one short story) trilogy about a guy who escapes from Earth with a hitchhiker seconds before the earth is destroyed, and he travels around with a fish in his ear. We find a lazered kindled to be completely normal.Also, I think lasers are way better than they used to be. I've got a lasered Captain Jack Sparrow rum flask, but that's another story for a different day. They have far more practical application than they did in the early days.