Ever wished you had a nice, booming soulful voice — perfect for screeching out treacly love ballads? Well, you could take singing lessons. Or you could just buy a copy of “Virtual Male Solo Vocalist”, a piece of software that will sing whatever words you type into it. As the website says:

LEON is a virtual male soul vocalist modelled on a real professional singer, and when he is installed into your PC he will literally allow you to create singing of superb quality and realism. LEON will sing ANY words you ask him to in English - literally anything - be they beautiful lyrics or comical trivialities, Monteverdi madrigals or manic chants. You can create vocal tracks of soulful singing in any lyrics you want. You just type in lyrics, and synthesize. Then add expression to taste. LEON is under your total control, and the really mind-blowing thing is - he can truly sound like a professional singing voice. With very little practice the results you get from LEON will completely fool your friends - they will believe they are listening to a real singer performing. The question you will hear will always be “WHO is that?”, and not “What is that?”.

(Thanks to Technovelgy for this one!)