A script to create a new folder and place selected items into it?

I'd like to select a few items and have either an Apple script / contextual menu automatically create a new folder and place the selected items inside it.
I have many, many to do—which is why I wanted to know if there is a script or automator or contextual menu thing available. Or if not, how can I create one?
Can that be done? Thank you!

Thank you for your help. Now I just want to expand on this a bit. To use the Applescript you have supplied me, how do I tell it to name the folder other than by date, and where to put it?
Let me say, preferably, is it possible to make an action like this right-clickable? Instead of having to pick a script. Anything that slows this process down means I might as well do it all by hand. What I'd really love to do is this:
Select a number of items. Right click to an action saying "create a new folder and put this items in it. Name the folder with the first item's name". Very simple and quick.
Could this be accomplished? Through Automator? or something that can appear in the contextual menu? Folder actions?
I'm just getting started with using these tools.

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Thank you for your help. Now I just want to expand on this a bit. To use the Applescript you have supplied me, how do I tell it to name the folder other than by date, and where to put it?
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Windows 7 hangs when creating a new folder and hangs again when renaming it Rhyous's 127.0.0.1 or ::1
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Create new folder and move items script

Hello
Im new to applescript and automator.
I've been looking high and low for something and figured I should ask the pros here...
I want the ability to have a "hot folder" that when ever anything is placed in the folder, a new folder is created in the top directory of that hot folder using the modified date as the new folders name and the contents of the hot folder are moved to the correct folder.
My thought was to upload pictures to this folder (on an external drive) and have the script put them in the correct folder that was created by the script. I could use either "modified date" "created date"...
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hot folder using the modified date as the new folders
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continuously.
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