Winter arms race.

• Position: What's new? Holiday gifts galore - Sno-Baller snowball maker - Brief Article

Why spend time packing snowballs by hand as your gloves get more and more soaked and freezing cold when there's a far-more-efficient way to load up for the battle ahead? The Sno-Baller from Sagebrush Industries, Inc., Springfield, Mo., can produce perfectly round, firmly packed missiles at the rate of about 15-20 per minutes once you get the hang of it.

Resembling a pair of oversized salad tongs with a hemisphere at the end of each arm and made of high-impact, colorful plastic, this ingenious device simply requires plunging into a...