Ok I had a few other puns for the title, but I liked that one best. Anyway, the Energy Ball is a Wind Turbine with an innovative new ball design. Its orb structure is more efficient and more quiet than your run of the mill three-blade turbine, and is powerful enough to provide some of the energy for your home. Go green, get some balls. More details after the read more link.

Bothered by bulky SSDs you have to lug around wherever you go? Well, problem solved. Super Talent Technology has just announced the launch of the slimmest 256GB SSD. It's definitely something you wouldn't mind checking out. Find out the details in the full article.

Okay, here's the leg of our gadget journey where we double over on ourselves and drop our geeky side to let our hidden social needs emerge and frolic. Hey, sometimes gearheads need to flash their accurate chronometers with some flair, too. And Casio, being the carrier of the popular G-Shock product line, will allow those with a knack for both tech and fashion to indulge themselves just so. More details of the new G5500C line at the full story.

There's been talk about super high-capacity discs for some time now. TDK even said something about having a 200GB Blu-Ray disc in August. Well, word's just trickled out that this week, Hitachi-Maxell will be organizing a showcase to present their latest offering to the public: their new 300GB holographic CDs.

Now that's a whole lot of space for data. Hitachi-Maxell's new 300GB holographic discs also have a transfer rate of 20MB/sec, combining high-speed transfers with sky-high capacity. These babies will no doubt prove invaluable for storing, say, uncompressed movies and music files that could be edited at a later time.

That's not all, too. InPhase has a second-generation 800GB rewritable optical disc with data transfer rates of about 80MBbps in the works for 2008, with plans to expand its capacity to 1.6TB by 2010.

Of course, with increased capacity comes a proportionately increased price tag. The 300GB discs are expected to fetch a price of around US$ 100 to US$ 125, while the optical drive that'll be used to operate them is expected to have a whopping price of US$ 15,000. Definitely not something that the common everyman can afford right now, but when the second-gen discs roll out, we expect these ones to get a price cut.

If, for whatever bizarre reason that we can't quite fathom, your lifestyle includes getting wet a lot while transporting valuable data through some pretty harsh conditions, then maybe you should consider getting one of the new USB 2.0 Flash drives from Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

These new Flash drives - the DataTraveler Secure and DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition - are the tough guys on the Kingston block. These babies are built like trucks, featuring titanium-coated stainless steel casings that are waterproof rated and conform to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60529 IPX8 standard to protect against water damage to depths up to four feet.

Just because they're tough as trucks doesn't mean they're as slow as them, too. The DataTraveler Secure and DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition have top-class performance with 24 MB/sec read and 10 MB/sec write speeds. Both are available in capacities of up to 4GB.

The DataTraveler Secure USB drives are shipping immediately while the DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition drives will be available in January 2007. The DataTraveler Secure ranges in price from US $33 for the 512MB version to US $244 for the 4GB version. Pricing info for the DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition is yet to be announced. If you're feeling interested in other Kingston products, click on this link.