I was walking through one of the halls when this little cherry-red number caught my eye. I do a fair amount of damage to the CDs that have the misfortune to end up in my car, so a better disc repair device than the hand-cranked jobbies seemed like a good idea. Then I saw the price: $995. That's a lot of copies of Dark Side of the Moon.

Turns out there's a big market for professional-level disc repair. All the DVD and game rental shops, all the used CD stores, all the video game stores give you five bucks off a game if you turn in eighteen, they need to at least try to get the ferret claw marks out of the poor abused discs you turn in. The "Disc-Go-Devil," as it's called, is actually one of the lower-end professional machines. DiscGoTech makes massive disc repairing monsters that can clean up to 225 discs an hour. Our scientific simulations say it would take over two thousand stoners with hardwood floors to screw up discs at that rate.

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