DeStat This enterprising Japanese company makes a number of interesting accessories as well as a broad range of cable products. The DeStat ($360) is a hand-held battery-powered device that eliminates static charges by blowing a gentle stream of positively and negatively charged charged ions. Traditionally the greatest use for static eliminators has been with LPs, but static can be a problem not only with media CD and DVD use for static eliminators has been with LPs, but static can be a problem not only with media CD and DVD discs as well as LPs but also with cables and hardware components.