Moldy Peaches

Unwanted compact discs have a new home. In the past they were usually relegated to one of two fates: drink coaster or impromptu Frisbee. But now, thanks to the good folks at Primera Technology, there's a whole new way to dispose of those hated CDs: shred 'em.

With the company's DS360 Disc Shredder, you can take a CD and grind it down to a pile of shiny confetti in less than 10 seconds. It works on the same principle as a paper shredder, but with a much, much sharper set of teeth inside. It isn't cheap listed at $129.95 US.

"They're solid-iron shredding teeth, as opposed to the pressed-steel ones inside most paper shredders," Primera Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mark Strobel said. "It will grind a CD down to a shiny mixture of plastic and reflective record material. It makes for shiny confetti. But you probably wouldn't want to throw it at anybody — it's kind of sharp."

Strobel said Primera got the idea for the DS360 from the U.S. Department of Defense, whose massive CD shredders grind discs — most of which contain highly sensitive information — down to a fine powder. While his company's shredder isn't nearly as powerful or that huge (it's about the size of a normal shredder), it can still really destroy some discs: up to 300 in an hour, if someone were to feed the machine a CD every 12 seconds.