I've had my laptop for several months now, and in that time I thought I had exhausted the features and full explorered their possibilities.  I was wrong.  In an article I was reading (I can't remember why I was reading an article about a laptop I already own), someone mentioned that it had a SPDIF/out jack (optical digital audio output).

I knew this had to be a mistake, I don't have one of those...or do I.  I gave it another close inspection and realized that the headphone jack had two labels, one with a little picture resembling headphones, the other was a smal circle with a lightning bolt through it. So, either this was where The Flash plugged in, or it was trying to tell me something.  I removed the speaker cable and inserted an optical cable adapter. (that I just happened to have lying around)  Voila!  Beautiful, red laser light came streaming forth.

You can see it in the picture (taken with my phone).  It's the bright spot coming out of the leftmost of the three jacks on the front.  The middle is occupied by the mic, the far right is an S-Video jack disguised as an 1/8“ stereo jack.