The truly well-off geek doesn't rest his soda can on an ordinary CD coaster. No, certainly not. He (or she) should use the newest, top-of-the-line model: the Blu-Ray coaster! This $17 circle of protection was created when reviewer Joel Santo Domingo moved his mouse and closed a few windows in the middle of a Blu-Ray disc burn, resulting in 22GB of useful dryness under the Diet Cokes here at PC Labs. Click on the photos to take a closer look and make sure that yes, this isn't an ordinary DVD-R coaster: it resists almost five times the spills and sweating of those more primitive discs.

What really hurts is that a Blu-Ray burn takes 45 minutes; after all, it's laying down a truly massive amount of data. That's a whole TV episode taken out of your life. Joel will have more details in his review.

Tune into this week's Gearlog Radio show (available on Friday), when we'll be speculating and ruminating about Blu-ray.