My brother got a cordless phone for the playroom with an extra base station and handset for his room. This is because he talks to his girlfriend all the time. I mean it--we're talking most of the time he's not at school. Because of this, he falls asleep on the playroom couch every night, which my parents don't like; it also means that I can't use the playroom (and the consoles in it) a lot of the time, which I don't like. So they'll use this present to get him to sleep in his bed, and to set some other rules about phone use.
Still smitten with the MP3 player, by the way...