The electronics industry has reason to eye suspiciously at new players dipping their hands into the river of of niobium that flow into their factories cranking out capacitors by the jillions every year. Those capacitors find their way into literally every single motherboard that makes operational the gizmos we all take for granted. And the supply, being limited and its mining contentious, needs no new stresses like novel applications appearing on the horizon. That would be anything from jewelry given the rockin’ colors this metal can sport or, ahem, the “useless” industry that is the nascent trade in niobium bars as bullion. So critical is the supply of this key element that the United States Congress is considering legislation to boost domestic production in a rare show of bipartisanship.

Get your hands on one or a handful of these bad boys before their price goes up (well, maybe that’s a little dramatic to be honest)