Golden Shellback has been touting their extraordinary gadget waterproofing treatment since July, and now it is finally available for purchase. It comes with a caveat, however. If you want your cellphone or other important gadget to avoid ruination by an accidental toilet drop, you are going to have to send the it to the company so they can wrap it in "vacuum deposited film." The coatings come with a 30 day warranty though. Here is a list of how much you’ll be paying to keep your beloved gadget dry:

Blackberry Pearl $120.00 per unit coated

Apple IPod Shuffle $60.00 per unit coated

Apple IPod Touch $120.00 per unit coated

Lansing IPod Speaker Orbit M $60.00 per unit coated

Garmin GPS etrex $75.00 per unit coated

West Marine Vhf 55 Radio $120.00 per unit coated

Speakers (no enclosures) up to 8 inches in diameter $100 each $180 pair

Take a Dell Latitude, slap on some military-grade protective materials, waterproof it, and design it for temperature extremes from -4F to 140F, and what do you have? The Augmentix XTG630, one tough notebook. The specs aren’t too shabby, either:

• 14.1 inch LCD
• Core 2 Duo processor
• Up to 4GB RAM
• Removable 80GB HDD plus 32GB SSD
• Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 802.11 a/g/n (draft)
• EVDO or HSDPA
• All the ports any rugged type would need

It can function in 4-inches of rain an hour and 95% humidity, and take a fall from up to 3 feet. Makes me feel like a weak, frail being, because I certainly couldn’t handle some of that abuse.

I admit to being a Tablet PC freak (and reminding everyone that my wife absconded with mine, and won’t give it back), and the Getec V100 sort of represents my daydreams of having an alter-ego. See, I spend most of my day behind a computer, rarely (never?) getting out in the wild where things must be built tough to survive.

So, I’d love to get this military-grade Tablet PC just so I could pretend to have a real life. This thing can withstand anything, dirt, sand, water, hot and cold, etc., etc. And, it’s well-equipped with Core 2 Duo, Bluetoth, and GPRS. Battery life is supposed to be six hours, as well, which would be impressive. No pricing yet, but I would expect to pay through the nose for this sort of toughness.

Okay, so the IronKey flash drive has hardware encryption (yawn), integrated secure Firefox for "stealth surfing," is waterproof, and comes in 1GB ($79) and 4GB ($149) versions. But, the kicker is: if you enter the wrong password 10 times–BAM! It explodes in a fireball of flesh-destroying mayhem. Well, okay, not actually, but it does scramble the information physically, making recovery impossible. I hear James Bond has a handful of these already.