The Netgear WNR3500L with DD-WRT firmware is as close as you're going to get for a reasonable price (about $100 USD).
Edit: The feature list for DD-WRT is here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F#Featu...
The innovation isn't in features, it's that you don't have to work in IT to have enough knowledge to configure it. Home networking is not a problem most people want to think about. They just want it to work.
We have a "dual fuel" HVAC system. It switches between electric and gas for heat depending on the outside temperature (electrical heat is very efficient in fall/winter given our relative fuel costs). The HVAC guys had all sorts of suggestions on how to tweak out additional savings by adjusting various parameters (temp for fuel cross-over, +/- range allowed in home, etc.) and were very excited about the possibilities. I just wanted the control unit to figure out what some reasonable settings were and to monitor performance.